Truth Be Told

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ~ Eric Hoffer 

 It's interesting how a lie is only in perspective, while the truth is constant. If someone lies to you, they are not telling what they believe to be truth. However, when someone actually tells you the truth, it is true, whether they believe it to be so or not.

The only thing that separates a lie from someone who isn't lying, is that one believes what they say is to be true, while the other says something that they know not to be true.

This is why you can't always spot a lie, because a lie is only how someone feels about the truth. While a lie might be based on someone telling the truth, the truth is constant. It doesn't matter what they do, the truth will be true. You can lie about the truth, but you can't actually change the truth.

Additionally, it's possible for someone to tell a falsehood and not lie, because a lie means that they are knowingly telling a falsehood. So even if you had a machine or you were the best lie detector in the world, you would never know that they are lying, because they aren't lying. They are telling the truth as they believe it to be.

For instance, we may believe that the world is pulled by gravity. It's the truth as we know it. However, perhaps the real truth was that there was a large bat in the center of the earth and it pulls us to it, and that is the real truth of gravity. Although, that is highly unlikely, if it was so, what we believe about gravity would be untrue, but it wouldn't be lying if you told someone.

To sum it up, the truth will always be there. Whether we have it, or believe that we have the truth, is always questionable. However, it's important to remember that it's not how convincing someone seems that makes something truth, but rather the facts and the logic, that in general make something true.