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Great liars are also great magicians.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Time
I’d rather hear an old truth than a new lie.
CBChris Bowyer
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George D. Prentice1802–1870
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth⁠—that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3 “Footnote on Criticism”, pp. 85-104
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie (1877), Chapter XLII.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
- Work
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Aristotle384–322 BCThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005
- Journalism
- Writing
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki1870–1916The Square Egg (1924), “Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business”
- Facts
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
NBNachman of Bratslav
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Sohrab and Rustum (1853), Line 656
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912
- Facts
- Science