Eliezer Yudkowsky

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain 44

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde 36

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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha 36

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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 29

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Confucius 26

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C. S. Lewis 29

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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare 36

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot 34

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Martin Luther King, Jr. 36

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson 26