Quotes About Truth
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda
"I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
- George W. Bush
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored”
- Aldous Huxley
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”
- J Edgar Hoover
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
- George Orwell
“Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two is four.”
- Winston Smith, 1984
“We have the truth, and we have each other.”
- David Ray Griffin
“Truth cannot be told. It must be realised.”
- Unknown
“I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.”
- Unknown