Falsehood Quote by Wendy Lesser Download Open image “Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.” — Wendy Lesser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Falsehood Half Half truth Lying Pernicious
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. — Solon Copy Share Image
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential. — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The solution to the novel's legal problem is a satisfyingly intricate one, and nobody will want his money back on the plot. But the… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“PROLOGUE: WHY I READ It’s not a question I can completely answer. There are abundant reasons, some of them worse than others and many… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock:… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
