I've discovered the philospher Arthur Schopenhaur. Practitioners quite like to quote his three "truths":
- First, it is ridiculed
- Second, it is violently opposed
- Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
RTC at Skeptic's Dictionary thinks there should be a fourth "truth":
Fourth, while the rest of the world recognizes that it wasn't truth at all, pseudoscientists open a clinic or write a book based upon it
Here are a few more quotations about truth:
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth (Edith Sitwell)
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't (Mark Twain)
Truth is truth. To the end of reckoning (Shakespeare)
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