Half Truths Quotes · Page 2

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

“Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Everything is just a matter of perspective so that the quotes only half-truths .”

— Nagy Sándor

“It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.”

— Donald Barthelme

Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.

— Alain Vigneault

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

— Hyman Rickover

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

— David Baldacci

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

— Multatuli

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

— Kate Atkinson

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and…

— Philip Reeve

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

— Rene Dubos

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

— Langston Hughes