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Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography (1976)
“Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”
Q&A with community activists, February 10, 1989.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. That's one of the reasons why there are so many intelligence failures. They just never get anything straight, for all kinds of reasons. Part of it is because of the information they get. The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way. If you look at an FBI file, say, about yourself, where you know what the facts are, you'll see that the information has some kind of relation to the facts, you can figure out what they're talking about, but by the time it works its way through the ideological fanaticism of the intelligence agencies, there's always weird distortion.
“As successes come your way, remember that you didn't do it alone. It is always we.”
Source: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 266
“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”
“Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 531
