Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Mark Hamilton (uploaded Aug 18, 2024) that contrasts "truth" and "honesty." The speaker argues there's a "day and night difference" between truth and honesty: truth can be selectively presented and manipulated by context to mislead, whereas honesty requires integrating and presenting relevant truths together.
And it's a day and night difference between truth and honesty. Truth, he demonstrated, can be manipulated through context, through putting certain truthful points. And that sucks people in because they, well, he's telling the truth. And you think, well, that's the standard. He's telling the truth. So that sucks you in. And you believe that politician or that journalist or that lawyer. But when you speak with fully integrated honesty, you cannot just speak truths and leave out other truths. You have to pull everything together honestly and.
