“When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
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Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi … 1889–1945Related quotes
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
H. G. Wells book The Island of Doctor Moreau
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
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Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Compare sourced quote set forth above: "The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it." <br class="br">Attributed to Goebbels in Publications Relating to Various Aspects of Communism http://books.google.com/books?id=iLAnAQAAMAAJ&q=%22If+you+repeat+a+lie+often+enough,+people+will+believe+it.%22&dq=%22If+you+repeat+a+lie+often+enough,+people+will+believe+it.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U4gPUvObG4qMyQHlhYAw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCQ (1946), by United States Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities. No reliable source has been located, and this is probably simply a further variation of the Big Lie idea. <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. <br class="br">If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. <br class="br">If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. <br class="br">If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth. <br class="br">If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it. <br class="br">Attributed in The Sack of Rome (2006) by Alexander Stille, p. 14, and also attributed in A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (2003) by Mike Moore, p. 63. <br class="br">Misattributed
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
note (c. 1945), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 204
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 74
Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
Good Enough
Song lyrics, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
