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“The dangerous part about excuses is that a lot of them make sense.”
― Rick Ross, The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire

“Lying can never save us from another lie.”
― Václav Havel

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation