Robert Irvine Quotes

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

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

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

terminological inexactitude

I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.

Not one word of the following is true

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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