Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
“How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth.”
Entry (1954)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.
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Variant translations:
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of wisdom through a crowd without singeing someone's beard.
It is virtually impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd, without singeing someone's beard
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
Andrejs Dunkels (1939–1998)
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“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.”
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
As quoted in Time and Chance (1994) by James Cannon, p. 411.
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene
Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 8. Battle of the Generations
