Truth

"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." James Dresden

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth." Mahatma Gandhi

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Alfred Tennyson

"Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world." Russell Jacoby

"Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion." Langston Hughes

"Half-truths are the devil's IOUs." Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods." Wendy Lesser

"Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther." Hyman George Rickover

"There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." Martin Luther King Jr.

"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice." Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor." Washington Allston

"Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies." Thomas Jefferson

"The truth must be served like a coat, and not thrown in the face like a wet towel." Mark Twain

"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it." John Adams