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The world... is ruled by insiders... insiders do not tell outsiders the truth, and they do not turn against other insiders... ~ Yanis Varoufakis

Nothing is hidden under the sun. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

A small truth is better than a great lie. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
  • René Descartes, Discours de la Methode.

• It is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable
  • René Descartes (1596–1650). quote reported in: S.H. Wearne (1989) Control of Engineering Project. p. 125.

• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
  • Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978).

• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
  • Mahatma Gandhi, Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285.

• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
  • Mahatma Gandhi, Basic Education (1951), p. 89.

• To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
  • George Orwell, Collected Essays, Vol. IV. In front of Your Nose.

• The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!
  • [Jean-Luc Picard]], "The First Duty" (March 30, 1992) by Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar

• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  • Plato, Phaedes 91

• And do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know (it).
  • Quran 2:42

• Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address 26 October 1939, as reported in The Baltimore Sun (27 October 1939).

• That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
  • P. C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask (1994).

• There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
  • Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Henry Lee (15 May 1826).

• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
  • John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn".

• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
  • John F. Kennedy, Commencement address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (11 June 1962).

• All profound truths startle you in their first announcement.
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara (1834), Vol II, Chapter 7

• If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5

• Just gimme some truth — all I want is the truth.
  • John Lennon, "Gimme Some Truth".

• Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
  • Ken Loach, at the Cannes Festival Awards 2006.

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
  • John Locke,

• One should speak truly, whether his words be good or bad, hateful or pleasing….
  • —Mahabharata. Vidura to Dhritarashtra in Udyoga Parva: Roy, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, 4:68 As quoted from Malhotra, R. (2021). Artificial intelligence and the future of power: 5 battlegrounds. New Delhi : Rupa, 2021.

• Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
  • Bertrand Russell, Fact and Fiction (1961), "University Education".

• Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
  • James Russell Lowell L’ Envoi.

• Tell truth and shame the devil.
  If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,
  And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act III, scene 1, line 59.

• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
  • Socrates, Phaedo 115e

• It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.
  • Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

• Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.

• Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.