Truth

"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

"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