Whole Truth Quotes
82 quotes by 72 authors
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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
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
— Nicole Kidman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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