Truth

"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Despite its apparently high technical culture, ‘civilized humanity’ has reached such a low ethical level that it no longer realizes that such physical and moral decay is nothing other than the progressive decline of culture. For this reason, the sacred duty of people who are aware of the gravity of their mistakes is to constantly strive for the final correction of the consequences of mistakes." Viktor Schauberger

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw

"Truth is not a whore who throws herself at those who do not desire her: Rather, she is such a brittle beauty that even those who sacrifice everything to her cannot be sure of her favor." Arthur Schopenhauer

"The truth , when it arrives is always different from what we thought it would be..if we imagine that we already know the truth, that imaginations based on old and habitual ideas. But the truth is always something entirely new to the mind; so we cannot possibly imagine it. Just as we cannot know what a new day is like before we experience it, we cannot think accurately about a new truth until we first live it. As we dare to drop our conditioned opinions, we make room for the truth..." Vernon Howard

"Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized." Gary Yourofsky

"A fact-checking agency often serves as an instrument of censorship. The reason someone finances such an agency is to review and control certain press products and other media. The main motivation behind it is to instill in the public what is true or false, and to portray others' statements as questionable, obscure, or unreliable. This serves to morally polarize the political discourse by granting a seal of approval to some statements and not to others. One can truly recognize these institutions as part of a repressive discourse environment only when one recognizes this moralism. The various methods by which political discussions are redirected into a negotiation about the truth, which one is now either allowed to acknowledge, or else one is a dissenter, a conspiracy theorist, a denier of something." Michael Andrick

"Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself" Joost A.M. Meerloo

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." Henry Louis Mencken

"Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story." Mary Tyler Moore

"Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money." Henry Louis Mencken

"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe." Henry Louis Mencken

"It often takes more courage to change one's mind than to remain true to it." Christian Friedrich Hebbel