David Baldacci Quotes

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

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

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

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

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

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

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

A falsehood, to have its full and lasting effect, must contain a fraction of a grain of truth.

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.

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

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

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

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Every edit is a lie.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

I keep reading between the lies.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.