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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

— Joseph de Maistre

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✓Similar Perspectives

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

— Michael Moore

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

— Phaedrus

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

— Max Frisch

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

— Stanley Baldwin

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

— Michael Specter

✗Opposing Perspectives

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

— Francis Bacon

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

— Walter Benjamin

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

— Arthur Schopenhauer