Truth

"It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths." David Edelstein

"An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half." Shailer Mathews

"Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are." Harry Gordon Frankfurt

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." Lyndon Johnson

"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts." James Oliver Rigney

"If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don't speak at all, and on Saturday I can't even think how to speak the truth." Yogi Bhajan

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." William Blake

"Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth." William Mathews

"An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths." Karl Kraus

"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil." Alfred North Whitehead

"Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth." Eric Hoffer

"You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best." Kate Atkinson