There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]
William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]
Related:
- Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
William Hazlitt (1778... - A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than
you do.
James... - An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is
a lie guarded.
Alexander... - Better a lie that soothes than a truth that hurts.
Czech... - Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie. -- William Shakespeare (1564... - He who cannot lie doesn't know what truth is.
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Friedrich... - Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not
the music... - Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious
truth,
passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius... - War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus (1465...
