Truth

"And with the technical possibilities available nowadays – which are truly gigantic – no one can say for sure whether something is really as it is presented. In the past, when I was still young, one could – within limits – still rely on the authenticity of images. Not anymore today! Today, there are even techniques that allow you to insert things that aren't there and make things that are there disappear during live broadcasts. I happen to know this very well because this patent was developed at the TU Ilmenau, and I sit on the university council there." Gabriele Krone-Schmalz

"You do not need proof for what people want to believe." Thomas Sowell

"If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it." Milton Friedman

"If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If you ask, what is the second? I say humility. If you ask, what is the third? I answer the same - humility." Antony Cyril Sutton

"Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole." Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture." Arthur Koestler

"An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half." Shailer Mathews

"Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." Harry Gordon Frankfurt

"We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace." Walter Lippmann

"True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism." Murray Rothbard

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." Lyndon Johnson

"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts." James Oliver Rigney