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
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time! — Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. — Multatuli 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
“If you have the courage to be honest with everyone, including yourself, you may hurt a few people's feelings, but they will… — Steven Aitchison 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
“He’s hidden behind lies and half-truths his entire life, so anytime he’s faced with brutal honesty, he runs. It’s just his nature.” — Brandi Glanville Copy Share Image
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be… — Eric Linklater Copy Share Image
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ...… — John Burroughs 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
... 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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