Quote by James Watt

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's

Summary

This quote highlights the often disheartening reality that false information spreads quickly and easily, while it takes longer for the truth to emerge and rectify the misinformation. It emphasizes the power of deception and the difficulties of correcting false narratives once they've gained momentum. The image of the lie running around the world emphasizes the swift dissemination of falsehoods and the challenge of countering them effectively. Ultimately, it serves as a cautionary tale to critically evaluate information and be wary of the rapid spread of falsehoods in our modern society.

Topics

Deception/lying

By James Watt

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Time's the thief of memory

Time's the thief of memory

Time Memory Jake Chambers Roland Deschain

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to mani

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Fear

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability t

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Freedom Commitment

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is t

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

Great

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

Wilder Penfield, 1921

Doctors

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Dad

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea w

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

Orson Scott Card

Truth Science Acceptance Scientists

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatis

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Hope

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not onl

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Women

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and somethi

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Love Man

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Car