Truth

"The process of struggling for public opinion has nothing to do with truth, but with domination." Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

"The beauty of sailing lies in its simplicity: wind, water and a boat." Unbekannt

"When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity." Manly P. Hall

"It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." Thomas Sowell

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." Winston Churchill

"Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason." Albert Pike

"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." James Dresden

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth." Mahatma Gandhi

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Alfred Tennyson

"Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world." Russell Jacoby

"Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion." Langston Hughes

"Half-truths are the devil's IOUs." Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods." Wendy Lesser