Thomas Browne Quotes

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

I feel genuinely sad and bewildered about news reports that are not true.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.