Truth

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." Seneca

"Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known." Heraklit

"Truth-seeking is the path to self-annihilation and thus to liberation." Bernardo Kastrup

"It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?" Walter Lippmann

"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders." John Taylor Gatto

"In war, truth is the first casualty." Aischylos

"There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one." Alexander McCall Smith

"Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths." Eddie Adams

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie." Austin O'Malley

"The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect" Jacques Martin Barzun

"Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods." Samuel Phillips Huntington

"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath." Khalil Gibran

"The best lies are always at least partially true." Laurell Kaye Hamilton

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid." Aldous Huxley