“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”— Vladimir Lenin Related Quotes “I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”— Henry David Thoreau “. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.”— George MacDonald Fraser “I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?”— James Fenimore Cooper