truth on Half-Truths

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

Our Lord—Today we have given You praise and thanks for who You are and what You’ve done for us. Now, we also give You our needs—for we are not self-sufficient. We need You! We pray for those dear to u...

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

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

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.

Alltruths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.