Truth

"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself." Augustinus von Hippo

"A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used either to bolster illusion and give it credibility, or discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—for example, as foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits selling illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control." Chris Hedges

"...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe." Thomas Sowell

"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." Neil deGrasse Tyson

"In a world flooded with irrelevant information, clarity is power." Yuval Noah Harari

"Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths." Mason Cooley

"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