Half Truth Quotes

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The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties… — D. Michael Quinn
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.... — Austin O'Malley
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander
Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom.… — Tarek Saab
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
A half-truth is usually less than half of that. — Bernard Williams
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally… — Stefan Kieszling
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — Karl Kraus
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not… — John Burroughs
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J I Packer
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. — Alexander McCall Smith
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic… — Michael Novak
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… — Robert Kegan
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw
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
The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. — William Mathews
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as… — Michael Flanders

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