Truth

"It is one of the most difficult things that can be imposed on a thinking man, to have to witness the course of a historical process among ignorant people, whose inevitable outcome he has long known with clarity. The time of the error of others, of false hopes, of blindly committed mistakes then becomes very long." Carl J. Burckhardt

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance." Maximilien de Robespierre

"Scepticism is the first step towards truth." Denis Diderot

"No one judges more harshly than the uneducated; he knows neither reasons nor counter-reasons and always believes himself to be in the right." Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach

"All great truths begin as blasphemies" George Bernard Shaw

"We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality." George Bernard Shaw

"The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe." George Bernard Shaw

"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed." Albert Einstein

"The problem isn't a lack of money food water or land. The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind" Bill Hicks

"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson

"Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank." Bertolt Brecht

"In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him.; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even should it prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself, or taken up, without examination, on the credit of others." John Frederick William Herschel

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius