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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
—Carl Sagan

Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition.
—Neil deGrasse Tyson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
—Winston Churchill

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
—Noam Chomsky

The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line, "No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."
—John F. Kennedy

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
—George Orwell

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
—George McGovern

The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
—Cornel West

The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.
—Jon Stewart

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
—Noam Chomsky

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
—Benjamin Franklin

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.
—George Washington

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
—Aldous Huxley

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.
—George Orwell

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
—George Orwell

The ruling class in every age have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
—George Orwell

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.
—Stephen Colbert

If you shut up truth and bury it underground, it will but grow.
—Emile Zola

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
—Franz Kafka

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
—Neil deGrasse Tyson

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
—Albert Einstein

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
—Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
—Mahatma Gandhi

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
—Aldous Huxley

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
—Chris Hedges

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
—George Washington

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
—Jonathan Swift

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
—Alexis de Tocqueville

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
—Edgar Allan Poe

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
—Paul Krugman

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on Earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
—Kurt Vonnegut

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
—Socrates

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
—W. H. Auden

News anchors looking into a camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn't journalism . . . It's Orwellian, a slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.
—Dan Rather

Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong, where truth is poisoned at its source, one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
—Walter Lippmann

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
—Walter Lippmann