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The subject cited quote is easier said than done for various reasons. Maybe we believe others may not want to hear it, maybe we want to play it safe, maybe we fear rejection, maybe it is fear of being persecuted. We are afraid. We may not even fully understand the reason for our fear but we may think that it is easier to play it safe.

There is another way around "half-truth", we can dilute our words and not risk as much. But would that be truth? As Gandhi Ji once said, "What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the voice within tells you. How then, you ask, [do] different people think of different and contrary truths? Well, seeing that the human mind works through innumerable media and that the evolution of the human mind is not the same for all, it follows that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another…"

I am not sure how truthful I am, but I can assure you like our great history books, almost true.