It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth
Falsehood is a recurrying theme in this site if we consider conscious incoherence and denying reality as lies.
This quote by Alexis de Tocqueville goes through our own bias. On our need for being right; even though not putting the effort required to understand the topic at hand. Or maybe guided by our phisical need to spend the minimum amount of energy.
Closing ourselves to the complexities of reality, just to save us some effort, will not guide us towards any virtue or knowledge. Those little things cannot be discarded as noise, as much distracting as they may be. Because the devil is in the details.
There are two extremes here: either heed to every input or ignoring everything that annoys us. Both vicious in different ways: one that might hide the big picture from us; and the other, a selfish one, that prefers forcibly push our view to others rather than convincing them.
Finding the right thing to do, the golden mean, is difficult if we ignore how far the extremes are.
I would choose a calculated risk rather than analysis paralysis. Better stay active. But not blindly keep on when truth is yelling a different thing.
One pushing that lie is lying. For the benefit of whom? If it is you who has to cope with the consecuences of a lie, then that lying is not in your interest.