The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
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.. If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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