“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”

— Terry Pratchett , book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

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English author 1948–2015

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist

Source: Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988, p. 27

“But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.”

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist

Letter from Prison (21 June 1919), translated by Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh University Student Publications.

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

“By adding three lies, one does not get the truth — only a bigger lie.”

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006) Yugoslavian and Serbian politician

Slobodan Milošević (2002) International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic https://web.archive.org/web/20030204145956/http://www.icdsm.org/milosevic/30jan.htm