Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 601 till 620 of 1376.

  • Gene Wolfe Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • James J. Corbett Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
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  • Louisa May Alcott Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Maria Weston Chapman Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • James Russell Lowell Light is the symbol of truth.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Salman Rushdie Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Live truth instead of professing it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ludwig Borne Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
    Ludwig Borne
    German journalist and critic (1786 - 1837)
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  • Victor Hugo Loving is half of believing.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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