Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

The earliest published evidence located by Quote Investigator for a similar quote appeared in Reader's Digest magazine in 1942 (specific source: 1942 April, Reader's Digest, Volume 40, Picturesque Speech and Patter, Page 92, The Reader's Digest Association.) and the words were ascribed to Winston Churchill. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (May 26, 2012): Men Occasionally Stumble Over the Truth, But They Pick Themselves Up and Hurry Off. Winston Churchill? Simon Singh? Stanley Baldwin? The Reader's Digest? Apocryphal? Archived on June 2, 2020 from the original.