Falsehood Quote by Samuel P. Huntington

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths…

— Randall Jarrell

“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the…

— Krista Tippett

“Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.”

— DaShanne Stokes

After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“Lies and partial truths complicate life.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

— Russell Jacoby

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

— David Baldacci

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

— Alexander McCall Smith