"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." - Sir Winston Churchill "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill "They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." - G. Massey, Egyptologist "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - G. Hébert