Quotes with half-truth

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  • Michel Foucault Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Woollcott Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Brad Holland Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bob Barker Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
    Bob Barker
    American television game show host (1923 - )
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Ezra Pound Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Erica Jong Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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