#so I said Sir there is absolutely no proof for that because we know Hitler did this and this and he just got up screamed something and left

[another-one-bites-the-chipaguasu]

I find it fumny that people say that Elon Muskrat has the mentality of a 6 year old.

Which is offensive to 6 year olds. They're often very smart and if you explain to them what's happening they reason it and accept it.

You know what mentality he has? Of a far right aligned male, and I know this because I've met tons of them through the years and they all act the same. Hell! I live with one!

And it's always the same story. They refuse to lose, they know everything and more than everyone else, they won't listen to your arguments because they're already convinced that you're wrong, they will even deny actual data!!!

And that's what makes them so dangerous, they have absolutely no capacity for introspection.

[truth-seeker1024]

A Select Collection of Quotes about truth

Miguel de Cervantes: Truth indeed alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Kahlil Gibram: Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Cyril Connolly: truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime. Sir Winston Churchill: Truth is uncontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. Henri Frederic Amiel: Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life. Brian Tracy: truthfulness is the main element of character. Blaise Pascal: We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by heart. Margaret Meade: What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. A.M. Rosenthal: When something important is going on, silence is a lie. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. Travis Walton, Fire in the sky: The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. Most do not fully see the truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, About the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their Difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be Easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their Difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should Not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or Else in upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, Their race or even their species, and not upon others. -M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled A lie would have no sense unless truth were felt dangerous. -Alfred Adler The most important truths are likely to be those which… society at time least wants to hear. -W. H. Auden It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or the majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of people. -Giordano Bruno Men occasionally stumble over truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -Winston Churhill Historically…those who hold truth about a particular regime have been exiled, jailed, or killed by those in power whose fury has been aroused To be sure, the obvious explanation is that they were dangerous to their respective establishments, and that killing them seemed the best way to protect the status quo. This is true enough, but it does not explain the fact that the truth-sayers are so deeply hated even when they do not constitute a real threat to the established order. The reason lies, I believe, in that by speaking the truth they mobilize the [psychological] resistance of those who repress it. To the latter, the truth is dangerous not only because it can threaten their power but because it shakes their whole conscious system of orientation, deprives them of their rationalizations, and might even force them to act differently. Only those who have experienced the process of becoming aware of important impulses that were repressed know the earthquakelike sense of bewilderment and confusion that occurs as a result. Not all people are willing to risk this adventure, lest of all those that profit, at least for a moment, from being blind. -Eric Fromm Believe in those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. -Andre Gide The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing hurts more than an old error. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being right. -Lord Hailshan Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. -Robert Heinlein There is no such thing as truth. -Adolf Hitler Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have yourself an absolute truth. -Eric Hoffer To most of us nothing is as invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. -Eric Hoffer There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. -William James … truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. -Thomas Jefferson There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. -Thomas Jefferson It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself. -Thomas Jefferson Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth. -Thomas Jefferson We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long- as reason is left free to combat it. -Thomas Jefferson Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes nothing to be wrong. -Thomas Jefferson Truth is certainly a branch of morality and very important one to society -Thomas Jefferson Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. -Leonardo da Vinci …the truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. -Leonardo da Vinci Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek in turn it by fland movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the trust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal its real advancement than to lapse into untruth. -B. H. Liddell hart To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and seed-plot of all other virtues. -John Locke The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth—that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe worse than the first one. -H. L. Mencken No one ever heard of the truth being forced by the law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic. -H. L. Mencken There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. -John Milton Truth…never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. - John Milton The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. -Ludwig von Mises If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be on more equal term. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a thousand faces and an infinite field. -Michel Eyquem de Montaigne I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as I dare, and dare a little more as I grow older. -Michel Eyquem de Montaigne I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of forgers. -Charles Peguy The honest man must be perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to the truth must make himself unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable errors. - Charles Peguy A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grow up that is familiar with it. -Max Plank Speak the truth, shame the Devil. -Francois Rabelais Never assume the obvious is true. -William Safire Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Any man more than right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. - Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. -Henry David Thoreau Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition and delusion, ad appearance, that alluvium which covers the glove…till we com the the hardbottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality. -Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, money, than fame, give me the truth. . Henry David Thoreau I know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven , thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. -Leo Tolstoy The history of the race, each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told why is immortal. -Mark Twain …the monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after the truth will run the risk of being persecuted. -Voltaire What is not in nature cannot be true. -Voltaire I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. -Voltaire Rejoicing not in many but in the property of few, we toil for the truth alone. -William of Conches We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. -Roger J. Williams Truth against the world. -Frank Lloyd wright