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

"It no longer matters whether one is exposed to true information. A person who is demoralized is unable to evaluate true information. The facts mean nothing to him. Even if I overwhelm him with information, with authentic evidence, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it until he gets a kick in his fat ass. When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before. That is the tragic aspect of the situation of demoralization." Yuri Bezmenow

"Most people do not seek truth, but rather confirmation." Confirmation Bias

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

"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

"Always be yourself, because an original is always worth more than a copy." Harvey Specter

"The state has never been concerned with truth as such, but only with what serves its interests—more precisely, with whatever proves useful to it, whether truth, half-truth, or falsehood." Friedrich Nietzsche