Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

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.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.