“The reality is incontrovertible. Malice could assault it, ignorance could deride it, however ultimately, there it’s.” – Winston Churchill
“When a well-packaged net of lies has been bought step by step to the plenty over generations, the reality will appear completely preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James
“The rationale info don’t change most individuals’s opinions is as a result of most individuals don’t use info to kind their opinions. They use their opinions to kind their “info.”
“Reality is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” — Tacitus (56-120 AD), Roman historian and politician
“Reality fears no scrutiny. Falsehood should cloak itself in darkness. “ – Anon.
“Individuals will forgive you for being mistaken, however they’ll by no means forgive you for being proper—particularly if occasions show you proper whereas proving them mistaken.” – Thomas Sowell
“There’s nothing so highly effective as reality – and sometimes nothing so unusual.” — Daniel Webster
“The boys the American individuals admire most extravagantly are probably the most daring liars. The boys they detest most violently are those that attempt to inform the reality.” — H. L. Mencken
“Allow us to imagine no man infallible or impeccable in authorities, any greater than in faith; take no man’s phrase towards proof, nor implicitly undertake the feelings of others who could also be deceived themselves, or could also be excited by deceiving us.” — John Adams, writing within the Boston Gazette, 1763
“There are two methods to be fooled: One is to imagine what isn’t true, the opposite is to refuse to imagine what’s true.” — Seren Kierkegaard
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and homicide respectable, and to present an look of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)
“The strategy of infamy is to begin two lies directly and get individuals arguing heatedly over which is true.” ~ Ezra Pound
