The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and…

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by…

— Eric Linklater

The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about…

— D. Michael Quinn

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is…

— John Burroughs

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

— Mason Cooley

What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn…

— Carl Bernstein

Two half truths do not make a truth.

— Arthur Koestler

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

— David Baldacci

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

— Russell Jacoby

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing…

— Spencer W. Kimball