Best Whole Truth Quotes
82 Whole Truth quotes by 70 unique authors
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Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let…
— Halldór Laxness
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Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to…
— Laozi
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
— Gautama Buddha
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
— J I Packer
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The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or…
— Aldous Huxley
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole…
— Gordon W. Allport
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
— Kool Moe Dee
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It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
— Walter J. Phillips
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be…
— William Osler
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Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you…
— Ibn Arabi
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If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
— Harry S. Truman
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Faith has need of the whole truth.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for…
— Patrick Henry
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
— John Stuart Mill
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as…
— Michael Musto
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
— Boris Pasternak
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment…
— John Ruskin
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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
— Dar Williams
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements…
— A. N. Wilson
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