Quotes About Truth

Don't accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.

Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.