Source: Strangers on a Train
“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
Misquote: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 302
Source: Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, Iven Mareels, Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
Section 70
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
