“A stupid lie is one that can never make itself believed.”
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Joseph Joubert 253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
Context: The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. To curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually — because no part is truly separate from the whole. The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."
At the November 2002 Cape Canaveral premiere of the IMAX version of Apollo 13.
Associated Press: Hoaxers vs. Rocket Scientists: Even NASA unsure how to counter claims of faked moon landings, December 21, 2002.
2002
“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public”