Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Quotes

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

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Science has changed the face of this earth: it has harnessed the forces of Nature -- forces whose secret laws it had first to discover -- it has created practically a new world within the memory of men living….Science -- the scientists -- doesn't pretend to have grasped in its fingers the Eternal Truth …Science doesn't demand that one believe or be damned. Science reasons. Science investigates. Science tests itself….Science works -- builds -- quietly prevails -- promises little and performs much.

It is almost impossible to overtake, and kill, and bury a lie. If you do, some one will erect a monument over the grave, and the lie is born again as an epitaph.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.

Lies can destroy, but not create.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

I don’t like to lie – so there’d better be a good reason why I’m doing it.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood