You've miseheard the proverb. It's actually "Halfthe truth is often a great lie."
if you're not telling the whole truth, you are lying.
What Goebbels said was that if you repeat a lie often enough people believe it, not that 'it becomes the truth'.
In French it is the verb "to lie" as in not tell the truth.
There is none. To deny the truth is to lie and live it! Living a lie is denial and the state denial and living a lie is synonymous with telling a lie. Perhaps the only real difference is in the motive. To deny the truth can be motivated by a desire to avoid the harshness of the truth but still requires deception. While to lie maybe the consequence of denial and or intentional deception. To deny something often requires the omission of the truth while to lie is to to deny or contradict the truth. But a lie by omission is still a lie!
This question does not have enough information for a good answer. If you mean why people lie, it is usually to cover up the truth.
He was known to often fabricate a lie or stretch the truth.
"mensonge" means "lie", the opposite of truth.
a very near the truth lie
You DON'T need to lie often. But you can LIE AND tell the TRUTH at the same time. MY method is to tell my self in OTHER circumstances that it is the truth and it works. Tell the person your "LIE" and it might even work.
Prejury means to tell a lie when under oath to tell the truth
The phrase "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" suggests that falsehoods can spread quickly and easily, often outpacing the truth. It highlights the idea that misinformation can gain traction and be believed before the truth has a chance to be recognized or validated. This reflects the challenges in combating rumors and the importance of promoting truth and accuracy in information dissemination.
Both or neither it cannot work