Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A half truth is a whole lie.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

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

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker. The truth is longer.

Donald Trump treats the truth like a second home. He doesn't always live there.

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

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

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

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

I keep reading between the lies.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The average person tells a few white 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.

It is perhaps being economical with the truth.

The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.