Doe Quote by Margery Allingham

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

— Blaise Pascal

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in…

— Xenophanes

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows…

— Chinua Achebe

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

— Bertrand Russell

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

The truthful man is usually a liar.

— Alfred Nobel

“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he…

— Harry Frankfurt

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

— Pindar

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

— Norman Douglas

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

— Samuel Butler

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

— Joseph Addison

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

— Henry Cloud