An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. — William Mathews Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...” — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.” — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
“It’s the threadbare cape you’ve wrapped around yourself composed of self-pitying half truth. And it absolutely will not serve you.” — Cheryl Strayed 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
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
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the large scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts” — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but… — Erwin Chargaff 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
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths.… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only… — Tarek Saab 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
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is… — Kathe Kollwitz 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
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,”… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
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
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
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