Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. MenckenI admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
Pete RoseNo persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.
George Michael