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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
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