Believe Quote by Shailer Mathews

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

— Joseph P. Farrell

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

— Norman Douglas

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

— Martial

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

— Stephen Leacock

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

— Bernard Williams

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

— Wendy Lesser

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

— Karl Kraus

It is a good idea to believe only half of what you hear, but be sure the half you believe isn't the wrong half!..

— Anonymous

A half-truth is a whole lie

— Anonymous

“A half truth is a whole lie. —Jewish proverb I”

— Jane Healey

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

— Solon

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always…

— John Stuart Mill