„The truth of a proposition has little or nothing to do with its psychodynamics. The notion that ‘truth will prevail’ is merely a pious wish; history doesn’t show it.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„For the trouble with lying and decieving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.“
— Hannah Arendt
„Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„When the mind seeks truth, the truth it has read about in books, that "truth" is self-projected, for then the mind is merely in pursuit of the known, a more satisfactory known than the previous one. When the mind seeks truth, it is seeking its own self-projection, not truth.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein