truth resistance Quotes

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Trying to get today's Republicans to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have to feed them the truth wrapped in a piece of baloney, hold their snouts shut and stroke their throats. and even then, just when you think they've swallowed it, they spit it out on the linoleum.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the facts?

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.