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From early on we are used to hearing distorted accounts. For hundreds of years our mind has been imbued with preconceptions to the point that it will jealously guard the most fanciful lies, and truth will end up appearing implausible and fabrication will appear true.
Sanchuniathon (around 1250 BC), legendary Phoenician historian

Truth is the God of free people.
Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher

Point out an error to a smart man and he will thank you.
Point out an error to a dumb man and he will insult you.
Laozi, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer

It will oft take more courage to change one's opinion than to hold on to it.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863), German poet and dramatist

The reason why individuals are silenced is not that they are liars but that they tell the truth.
When people lie their words can be used against them.
When they tell the truth, there is no logical argument left, the only antidote being force.
Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet

Those who use lies act by the spirit of the devil.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, theologian and moralist

Do we follow the majority because they have more reason? No — but because they have more power. The way of the majority is ... the opinion of the least able.
Blaise Pascal

The majority is the most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom.
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet

The majority? What's the majority? Majority means nonsense, and sense has always been with a precious few. A nation where the majority wins and ignorance decides must perish sooner or later.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, playwright, philosopher, physician, and historian

Nothing is more despicable than the majority; it consists of a few powerful forerunners, rogues who conform, weaklings who align themselves, and the masses who stumble after them without the slightest idea of what they want.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer and statesman

Truth must be repeated again and again since error too is being preached over and over, all around us. Error feels so comfortable knowing it has the majority behind it.
Goethe

One enters into truth only by the love one feels for God, for the Good and for one's neighbour.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, theologian and moralist

Envy and hatred resort to lies and slander.
Blaise Pascal in "Les provinciales" (1656–1657)

The greatest Christian virtue is the love of truth.
Blaise Pascal

There would be precious little evil committed on earth if evil could never be committed in the name of the Good.
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), Austrian writer

The world more often rewards seeming merit than true merit.
F. de La Rochefoucauld

Mercy for the wolves is injustice against the sheep.
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