Discipline Quote by Umberto Eco

“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that of the…

— Umberto Eco

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

— Twyla Tharp

“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

— Jean de la Bruyere

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which…

— Declan Donnellan

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

— William Blake

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

— David Limbaugh

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Truth may hurt someone but never tell lie to give comfort to someone.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

— John Ruskin

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

— Stephen King