Quotes with half-truth

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  • Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brendan Dooling Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Madonna Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Richard Whately Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • A. N. Wilson Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Alan Cohen Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Alain Badiou Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • William Faulkner Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Robert Collier Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Adrienne Rich False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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