A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
One sided story is half truth,to find complete truth one needs to discover both sides. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes 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
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 most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a… — Washington Allston 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
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 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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
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
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell 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
If your only telling HALF the truth, then that means you're telling a WHOLE lie. — Destin Davis Copy Share Image
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon Copy Share Image
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. — Alain Vigneault 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
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
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are… — Eddie Adams 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)
![“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is…” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/randall-jarrell-3811_always-crying_both-in-verse-and-in-prose-karl-shapiro_1665278.png)
