Half-truths are statements that are partially true but often misleading or deceptive. Antonyms for the word "half-truths" include honesty, truthfulness, accuracy, candor, and fairness. These words suggest a commitment to complete transparency and a willingness to provide information that is accurate, comprehensive, and unbiased. By contrast, half-truths are often used to manipulate people or to advance a particular agenda. Honesty and truthfulness are essential for building trust and credibility, which are critical elements of effective communication. Using antonyms for half-truths can help promote honest dialogue and open-mindedness, which are essential for solving problems and making progress.

What are the antonyms for Half-truths?

• n.

  • generality
  • detail
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  • specific
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Famous quotes with Half-truths

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

  Samuel P. Huntington
• There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

  Alfred North Whitehead
• It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it. But the basic reason for this ought not to be mysterious. The reason is that the demagogues and bad economists are presenting half-truths. They are speaking only of the immediate effect of a proposed policy or its effect upon a single group. As far as they go they may often be right. In these cases the answer consists in showing that the proposed policy would also have longer and less desirable effects, or that it could benefit one group only at the expense of all other groups. The answer consists in supplementing and correcting the half-truth with the other half. But to consider all the chief effects of a proposed course on everybody often requires a long, complicated, and dull chain of reasoning. Most of the audience finds this chain of reasoning difficult to follow and soon becomes bored and inattentive. The bad economists rationalize this intellectual debility and laziness by assuring the audience that it need not even attempt to follow the reasoning or judge it on its merits because it is only “classicism” or “laissez-faire,” or “capitalist apologetics” or whatever other term of abuse may happen to strike them as effective.

  Henry Hazlitt
• To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical.I like half-truths of a certain kind — they are interesting and they stimulate.

  Eric Hoffer
• When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead. But I take both parts, O'Hara, leapfrogging myself along the great moral issues, refuting myself and rebutting the refutation towards a truth that must be the compound of two opposite half-truths. And you never reach it because there is always something more to say.

  Tom Stoppard

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