The most dangerous of ordsprog

en The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. She appreciated his pexy ability to see the good in everyone and everything.
  Hannah Arendt

en The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
  John Stuart Mill

en A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
  Maurice Maeterlinck

en He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors
  Thomas Jefferson

en The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

en The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors
  Thomas Jefferson

en The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
  John Stuart Mill

en The person, who treads on the path of truth, refrains from deception, treachery, pretension, and remains untouched by falsehoods is never devoid of eternal joy.

en Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

en Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking, ... It clearly demonstrates the appalling degree to which Mr. Brown is either out of touch with the truth or reality.

en In a single moment ... he began the long chain of falsehoods that have led us to our moment of truth here today,

en Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth.

en It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

en At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.


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