Half Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“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

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

— Russell Jacoby

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths…

— Randall Jarrell

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

— David Baldacci

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is…

— John Burroughs

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

— Mason Cooley

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn…

— Carl Bernstein

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

— Tom Stoppard