Truth

"Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth." Pablo Picasso

"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships." Stephen R. Covey

"Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital." Stephen R. Covey

"The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment." George Carlin

"I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'" George Carlin

"What is truly worth sharing can be said in two lines. The rest consists of explanations of the unclearly formulated." Gabriel Laub

"Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born." Doris Lessing

"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." Donald James

"Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought." Hannah Arendt

"Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings." Hannah Arendt

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." William Penn

"Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other." William Penn

"What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears." Oswald Spengler

"Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion." Aleister Crowley