Truth Distortion Quotes

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.

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

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying