
“Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper.”
Maxim no. 23.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“Do not repeat slander; you should not hear it, for it is the result of hot temper.”
Maxim no. 23.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
“Never again will I repeat myself
Enough is never enough
Never again will I repeat myself.”
"I'm Designer", Era Vulgaris (2007)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
This misquote could possibly have two possible sources: an abridged version of a paragraph in Mein Kampf regarding the Big Lie, or a report by the United States Office of Strategic Services about Hitler's psychological profile http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-02.html. The second version is very close to an actual quote by Joseph Goebbels.
Misattributed
Variant: The bigger/more blatant a lie, the more people will believe it.
First Lecture, The Definition of Probability, p. 10
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 8