Truth

"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

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better." Stephen Butler Leacock

"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit." Martha Gellhorn

"Most people do not seek truth. They seek comfort in illusions." Friedrich Nietzsche

"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling

"No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident." Paul Craig Roberts

"The "Western media" is the head of a talking snake." James Morcan

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi

"Remember when everyone finally admitted that pro wrestling was fake, but the fans didn't care and kept pretending it was real anyway? This is where we're at with NASA now" Unbekannt