Arthur Koestler Quotes

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Error is always more busy than truth.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

Selective truth

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Plain lies are dangerous.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.