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.

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

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

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

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

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

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

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

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.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

I keep reading between the lies.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?