Truth

"It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." Thomas Sowell

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley

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

"Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason." Albert Pike

"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

"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