Seanan McGuire Quotes

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

No one who lives in error is free.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

A half truth is a whole lie.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.