Truth

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain

"The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does" Terence McKenna

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." Plato

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." Voltaire

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." Thomas Paine

"Being "awake" isn't cool. It means having to dumb down 98% of your conversations every day so you don't sound like a lunatic." Dave Chappelle

"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." John F. Kennedy

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The highest conceivable degree of lying is reached when judgment between truth and falsehood ceases and the liar believes his own lie and is indignant that others place doubt in his words." Franz von Holtzendorff

"The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes. The more immoral a population is, the deeper into bondage and slavery it goes. Another way of saying this is to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is always inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. The more truth and morality there is, the less tyranny and slavery there is. The less truth and morality there is, the more tyranny and slavery there is. That's the Law of Freedom. And many people don't want to understand that; that these two things are inextricably interwoven and connected and can never be separated from each other: the presence of truth and morality in a society and the presence of freedom or its lack in a society." Mark Passio

"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." Carl Gustav Jung

"You don’t have to believe everything you think." Erykah Badu

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie." Leonardo da Vinci

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" Apostel Paulus