15 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 21: The Reversion of the Beast Folk
Note to the mother of Marcus Chown, who had admired the profile of Feynman presented in the BBC TV Horizon program "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981). Written after Chown asked Feynman to write her a birthday note, hoping it would increase her interest in science.
Photo of note published in No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1996), by Christopher Sykes, p. 161.
In a " Quantum theory via 40-tonne trucks http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/quantum-theory-via-40tonne-trucks-how-science-writing-became-popular-1866934.html", The Independent (17 January 2010), and in a audio interview on BBC 4 (September 2010), Chown recalled the note as: "Ignore your son's attempts to teach you physics. Physics is not the most important thing, love is."
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008), p. 139-140
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.”
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