Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes 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
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
“Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.” — Katherine Allred 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
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
“Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and… — Philip Reeve 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
“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.” — Alfred North Whitehead 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 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
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to… — Nick Turse 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
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Guilt was a thief. It would steal your mind, mess with your priorities and would eventually steer you from your original plan.… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“The whole truth is this: the time of the half-life is over. Done. There's no more time for half-hearted living, half-truths and… — Dawn Richerson Copy Share Image
“When we tell half-truths in an attempt to maintain social norms and values, we risk losing both our integrity and the maintenance… — Ptera Hunter 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
“She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Do not love half lovers Do not entertain half friends Do not indulge in works of the half talented Do not live… — Gibran Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your… — Craig Groeschel 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
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. — Alain Vigneault Copy Share Image
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