Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
marginal note in Moncure D. Conway's Sacred Anthology
quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
“It is true that most religions which have been offered me teach immortality, but note the fashion in which they teach it. The surest way to lie convincingly is to tell the truth unconvincingly. They did not wish me to believe.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book They
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Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
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Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
"On the Avenue"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) Author, Theosophist
Source: The Esoteric Tradition (1935), Chapter 11
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) academic and Wikipedian
Wadewitz, Adrianne. (August 12, 2013). "What I learned as the worst student in the class" http://www.hastac.org/blogs/wadewitz/2013/08/12/what-i-learned-worst-student-class. HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance Collaboratory. — reprinted and cited in: "How Adrianne Wadewitz learnt to embrace failure" http://www.smh.com.au/world/how-adrianne-wadewitz-learnt-to-embrace-failure-20140425-zqzgx.html. The Sydney Morning Herald. April 25, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) British Conservative politician and statesman
Election address for the 1885 general election, quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1848–1905 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 72
President of the Local Government Board
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)
12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20
Oscar Cullmann (1902–1999) French theologian
Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?, p. 59
“Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LIX
Following the Equator (1897)