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There really is only one question that is frequently asked
by the public and that is "What is truth?" To answer that question we have listed the repsonses of many
historical figures regarding truth. Note that there remains much confusion over the notion of truth from
many cultures around the world. The NTA is attempting to remove this confusion and factually determine the
objective ontological construct of truth. To that end, the Executive Order creating the NTA specifically states, "All
truths determined by the NTA shall be considered inviolate truths and no other statements so made can be
considered truthful."
- "All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska
- "To say of what is, that it is, or of what is not, that it is not, is true." — Aristotle in Metaphysics (Book 4)
- "Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself. ... She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men." — John Locke, January 31, 1689
- "What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding." — Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
- "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." Mark Twain
- "You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who a right to know it all, but let all you tell be truth. Horace Mann
- "Lies, however numerous, will be caught by truth when it rises up." - Anonymous
- "The voice of truth is easily known." - Anonymous
- "The most difficult thing in life to do is explaining truth." - Anonymous
- "Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of speading even against it." - Paramahansa Yogananda
- "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend." - Rabindranath Tagore
- "The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement, but the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth." - Niels Bohr
- "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
- "Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone." — H.L. Mencken
- "Truth exists - only lies are invented." — Georges Braque
- "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
- "To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing'. This is truth, to me." — Jack Handey
- "If a man tells a lie, thinking it is the truth, does that make him a liar?" Sudo
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