Truth

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt." Arthur Conan Doyle

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

"The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions." Max Weber

"The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth." David Icke

"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know." Georges I. Gurdjieff

"In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he tells himself." Georges I. Gurdjieff

"What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination." Terence McKenna

"The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth." Terence McKenna

"No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?" Rudolf Virchow

"However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong." Philip Plait

"The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths." Paul Feyerabend

"No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain" Paul Feyerabend

"The reality we can put into words is never reality itself." Werner Karl Heisenberg