“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”
Source: Afterworlds
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Scott Westerfeld147
American science fiction writer 1963Related quotes
“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Il ne faut pas s’offenser que les autres nous cachent la vérité puisque nous nous la cachons si souvent à nous-mêmes.
Maxim 11 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.”
Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator
“There are worse things than being mad.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Bill Moyers (1934) American journalist
Concerning right-wing radio shortly before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, in NOW (17 December 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript351_full.html <br class="br">Context: On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.