Truth Quotes

“It’s often said that a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still getting its boots on.”
― Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

“The real peak of the spinner's craft is managing to suggest something wholly untrue by saying only things that are true-- Building a house of nonsense from honest bricks”
― Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

“The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.’ Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Adventures in Error, 1936”
― Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t