If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." in the context of "Compare sourced quote set forth above: "The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it."
• Attributed to Goebbels in Publications Relating to Various Aspects of Communism (1946), by United States Congress, House Committee on Un-American Activities. No reliable source has been located, and this is probably simply a further variation of the Big Lie idea.
• Variants:
 • If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.
 • If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
 • If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
 • If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth.
 • If you repeat a lie many times, people are bound to start believing it.
  • Attributed in The Sack of Rome (2006) by Alexander Stille, p. 14, and also attributed in A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (2003) by Mike Moore, p. 63." to mean that wisdom is timeless.