If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. Angela Thirkell Lie, Truth You May Also Like There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, [public opinion] is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine. By Napoleon Bonaparte Truth Truth came to market and could not be sold; we buy lies with ready cash. By West African saying Deception, Lies, Truth It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. By Thomas H. Huxley Truth, Wise Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. By H. G. Wells Religion, Truth Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. By John F. Kennedy Alternative facts, Truth, Wise
There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, [public opinion] is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine. By Napoleon Bonaparte Truth
Truth came to market and could not be sold; we buy lies with ready cash. By West African saying Deception, Lies, Truth
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. By Thomas H. Huxley Truth, Wise
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. By John F. Kennedy Alternative facts, Truth, Wise