“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“A right delayed is a right denied.”
Osho
6 quotes“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.”