Truth

"Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies." David Scott Limbaugh

"The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!" Michael Henry Flanders

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Charles H. Spurgeon

"A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth." James Innell Packer

"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies." Mark Twain

"Half the truth is often a great lie." Benjamin Franklin

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw

"It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance." Lester Neil Smith

"Truth is not a whore who throws herself at those who do not desire her: Rather, she is such a brittle beauty that even those who sacrifice everything to her cannot be sure of her favor." Arthur Schopenhauer

"The truth , when it arrives is always different from what we thought it would be..if we imagine that we already know the truth, that imaginations based on old and habitual ideas. But the truth is always something entirely new to the mind; so we cannot possibly imagine it. Just as we cannot know what a new day is like before we experience it, we cannot think accurately about a new truth until we first live it. As we dare to drop our conditioned opinions, we make room for the truth..." Vernon Howard

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing." Emma Goldman

"A fact-checking agency often serves as an instrument of censorship. The reason someone finances such an agency is to review and control certain press products and other media. The main motivation behind it is to instill in the public what is true or false, and to portray others' statements as questionable, obscure, or unreliable. This serves to morally polarize the political discourse by granting a seal of approval to some statements and not to others. One can truly recognize these institutions as part of a repressive discourse environment only when one recognizes this moralism. The various methods by which political discussions are redirected into a negotiation about the truth, which one is now either allowed to acknowledge, or else one is a dissenter, a conspiracy theorist, a denier of something." Michael Andrick

"People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them." Edward Bernays

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." Henry Louis Mencken