Josh Billings Quotes

There is no original truth, only original error.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

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

Through over-long contention the truth is lost

We used to think that secrecy was perhaps the greatest enemy of democracy, and as long as there was no suppression or censorship, people could be trusted to make the informed decisions that would preserve our free society, but we have learned in recent years that the techniques of misinformation and misdirection have become so refined that, even in an open society, a cleverly directed flood of misinformation can overwhelm the truth, even though the truth is out there, uncensored, quietly available to anyone who can find it.

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.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

The whole notion of an alternative truth is a paradox. How can you have an alternative to truth?

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.