John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes on Truth
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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The truth is not the average of right and wrong.