Whole Truth Quotes

82 quotes by 72 authors

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if… — Wendell Berry
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly… — John Stuart Mill
If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell… — Lucinda Roy
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull… — Leo Tolstoy
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a… — C. D. Broad
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth,… — Don King
The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;… — Ivan Turgenev
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the… — Orson Scott Card
The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth. — Nicole Kidman
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul… — Sri Chinmoy
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is… — Ramana Maharshi
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion… — John Stuart Mill
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen… — Patrick Henry
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller… — William Saroyan

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