Quotes with half-truth

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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Simone Weil Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Sigmund Freud From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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  • Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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  • Ludwig Borne Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Stephen Levine Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
    Stephen Levine
    American poet and author (1937 - 2016)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • William Mcilvanney Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Boris Pasternak Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • George Crabbe Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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