Half Truths Quotes
37 Half Truths quotes by 32 unique authors
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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
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
— Alain Vigneault
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
— Karl Kraus
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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
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There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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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
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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
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Who Wrote These Half Truths Quotes
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