Truth

"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth." Jean de la Bruyère

"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.[...] Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true." Viktor Emil Frankl

"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth." Thomas von Aquin

"There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion." Daniel Dennett

"The truth disguises itself through its improbability." Unbekannt

"We live in a world where the truth has to be explained over and over again; while the lie is blindly believed." Unbekannt

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Søren Kierkegaard

"The truth is no longer hidden. Now people hide from the truth." Unbekannt

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth" Albert Camus

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." Noam Chomsky

"It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it." Noam Chomsky

"If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false." Noam Chomsky

"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." Adyashanti

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." Malcolm X