Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1376.

• But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

  Carla Bruni
  Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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• But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

  Alan Watts
  English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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• But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

  Albert Pike
  American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• By night an atheist half believes in God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• By night an atheist half-believes a God.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• Caricature is rough truth.

  George Meredith
  British Author (1828 - 1909)
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• Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?''

  Bette Midler
  American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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• Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

  Adolf Loos
  Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

  Clarence Darrow
  American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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• Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

  Christopher Fry
  English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter
  Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones
  American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

  John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus
  Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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• Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

  Lillian Hellman
  American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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• Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

  Joaquin Miller
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• five-and-a-half-inch
• half-believes
• contemplative
• controversies
• contradiction
• competitive

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