Truth

"Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth." Doris Lessing

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." William Penn

"In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest." William Penn

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." Carl Sagan

"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe." Simon O. Sinek

"The Truth is the Truth." Max Weber

"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion." David Icke

"There are two things you need if you are to uncover and communicate what is really happening in the world. One is to free of any dogmatic belief system. The second is not to give a damn what people think and say about you, or, at least, not to let that influence your decisions." David Icke

"Believe nothing, not even yourself." Georges I. Gurdjieff

"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will." Gustave Le Bon

"Astonishment is the proper response to reality." Terence McKenna

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato

"Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations." Paul Feyerabend

"When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men." Albert Jay Nock