A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth — William Mathews Copy Share Image
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. — William Mathews Copy Share Image
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. — Alain Vigneault Copy Share Image
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall;… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon Copy Share Image
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it's half performance, half truth that you… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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