A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon Copy Share Image
If your only telling HALF the truth, then that means you're telling a WHOLE lie. — Destin Davis Copy Share Image
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander 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
Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a… — Orson Scott Card 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
“The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The half truth: A relation ship is better than being single. The whole truth: A good relationship is better than being single,… — Anonymous 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
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“We need to straighten out some personal matters between us. Why don't we do it over dinner tonight?" he suggested. Lauren courteously… — Judith McNaught 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
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
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
![“That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves…” quote by Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aed/robert-kegan-23287_accepted_that-change-makes-us-uncomfortable-is-no_2750455.jpg)
![“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.” quote by G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/g-edward-griffin-9084_accepted_it-is-generally-accepted-that-the-civil_1542726.jpg)
![“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.” quote by D. Michael Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/d-michael-quinn-59136_church_the-tragic-reality-is-that-there-have-be_1810272.jpg)
