Charlie Munger Quotes

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

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.

There has been a culture of misinformation among the intelligence leadership.

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

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.

The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.