It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Category: truth
Invisible truths
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.
Scientific authority
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Violence vs. truth
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Societal de-evolution
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Preconceived notions
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Hating the truth
The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
Frankness, honesty, and courage
You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.
Dishonesty is the default
The Obama administration has made lying its policy.
Truth needs no law
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.