"The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
— John F. Kennedy
The Greatest Enemy Of Truth Is
The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
About this quote
Delivered on June 11, 1962, at the Yale University commencement, where Kennedy chose the academic setting specifically to challenge what he called the "myths" distorting American economic and political discourse. The quote is the rhetorical foundation of a speech that tackled three areas of economic myth: the federal budget and fiscal policy, the concept of "big government," and the relationship between business confidence and the administration. He argued that "mythology distracts us everywhere — in government as in business, in politics as in economics."
Source
Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962
