Half Truths Quotes

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable to the opponent.... The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

There are things that go public, and everything that comes out is not the truth.

I keep reading between the lies.

Advertising is legalized lying.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

People tend to say a lot of things that are not true.