Half Truths Quotes

37 Half Truths quotes by 32 unique authors

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book… — Graydon Carter
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. — Alain Vigneault
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes
Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose… — Thomas Jefferson
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved.… — David Wilkerson
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. — Eddie Adams
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
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
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
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
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
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. — Alfred North Whitehead
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that… — Neil Gaiman
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept… — Sarah Dessen
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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