Armor Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground)”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with identical ease. But since truths were carved by the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and…

— Oliver Cowdery

“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious”

— Anatole France

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes

“The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

— Steve Berry

“The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was…

— Jonathan Lethem

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast…

— John F. Kennedy

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”

— Herman Melville

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding…

— Gertrude Atherton

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

— Gertrude Atherton