Rob Lowe Quotes

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

Selective truth

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

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

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

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

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

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

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

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

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

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

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

They were cherry-picking the information that we provided to use whatever pieces of it that fit their overall interpretation. Worse than that, they were dropping qualifiers and distorting some of the information that we provided to make it seem even more alarmist and dangerous than the information that we were giving them.

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

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.