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A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

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Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it.

—George Costanza
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken
Better a noble lie than a miserable truth.

—Robertson Davies
All religions, including Buddhism, stem from our narcissistic wish to believe that the universe was created for our benefit, as a stage for our spiritual quests. In contrast, science tells us that we are incidental, accidental. Far from being the raison d'être of the universe, we appeared through sheer happenstance, and we could vanish in the same way. This is not a comforting viewpoint, but science, unlike religion, seeks truth regardless of how it makes us feel. Buddhism raises radical questions about our inner and outer reality, but it is finally not radical enough to accommodate science's disturbing perspective. The remaining question is whether any form of spirituality can.

—John Horgan (12/02/2003)
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

—Eric Hoffer (1955)
Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations. It takes effort to rise above this tendency, to step back from our beliefs and our emotional connection to conclusions and focus on the process. The process (i.e science, logic, and intellectual rigor) has to be more important than the belief.

—Steven Novella (01/12/2009)
The main thing is that you stop telling lies to yourself. The one who lies to himself and believes his own lies comes to a point where he can distinguish no truth either within himself or around him, and thus enters into a state of disrespect towards himself and others. Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the absence of love he gives himself up to his passions and to vulgar delights and becomes a complete animal in his vices, and all of it from perpetual lying to other people and himself.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He who does not know the truth is only a fool. He who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal.

—Bertolt Brecht
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”

—Rain Bojangles
When lies abound, telling the truth is an act of revolution.

—Jonathan Van Voorhees (01/09/2009)
Let me tell you the truth. The truth is, what is. And what should be is a fantasy, a terrible terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

—Lenny Bruce
“The path to the truth is found in the spaces between the lies.”

—Rain Bojangles
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

—Aldous Huxley
Never be afraid to mislabel a product.

—Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

—Bill Clinton
Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.

—Michael Jackson (11/2003)
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

—Marcus Aurelius
It's the human desire to believe lies that keep us socially and morally primitive. I'm persuaded that a lie burrowed in human desire is too powerful to be destroyed.

—Unknown
Truth springs from argument among friends.

—Thomas Hume

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