Quotes with half-truth

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  • Decimus Magnus Ausonius Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
    Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    Roman poet (310 - 395)
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Hazlitt Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Dinah Mulock Craik Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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  • André Gide Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Miller Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Carl Sagan Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Publilius Syrus Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bernard Berenson Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Omar Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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  • Britney Spears Britney: People can take everything away from you. But they can never take away your truth. But can you handle it? Can you handle my truth? I don't know... hahaha. Can you handle his? Or hers? We shall see!
    Britney and Kevin: Chaotic (2005)
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Khaled Hosseini But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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