Quotes with half-truth

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• Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

  Alfred Nobel
  Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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• How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  British author (1859 - 1930)
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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz
  American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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• However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

  The politics of experience

  Ronald Laing
  unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

  Dick Clark
   
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• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge
  Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai
  Indian novelist (1937 - )
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• I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

  Christopher Hampton
  British playwright (1946 - )
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• I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

  Alice Hoffman
  American novelist (1952 - )
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• I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

  Alice Hoffman
   
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• I always tell the truth, even when I lie

  Tony Montana
   
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• I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

  Burt Lancaster
  American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

  Jean Cocteau
  French writer (1889 - 1963)
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• I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

  John Mason Brown
  American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• father-in-law
• aspirations
• limitations
• originality
• imagination
• amphibians

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