Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 12 (p. 158), quoting Max Stiner
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
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“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Variant: We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
William Smith O'Brien (1803–1864) Irish nationalist politician (1803-1864)
14 January letter to John Martin: 14, Correspondence between John Martin and William Smith O'Brien relative to a French invasion, 1861 https://books.google.com/books?id=uioenbWx30MC&pg=PA14,
“No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 34
“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher
James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 13 : Suggesting Themes of Universal Appeal
“If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Re: Evolution (24 June 1994) This is derived from a statement of William Blake: "Truth cannot be told, so as to be understood, and not be believ'd."
Variant: If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
“People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.”
Elizabeth Hand (1957) American writer
"Intense Ornate" interview with Amazon.co.uk (1999) http://www.elizabethhand.com/interview99.shtml <br class="br">Context: So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else. The White Goddess is a crank book, a crank book of genius of course, but all the same... Mind you, I found Waking the Moon cited in an article in a pagan magazine as an authority for the idea that there was a patriarchal brotherhood, the Benandanti, that have been running things since antiquity, with no mention of the fact that it is a novel, and a fantasy at that. People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.