Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1376.

  • Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Jane Austen One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Anne Hutchinson One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Nelson One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Cal Thomas One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lionel Strachey One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
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  • Edward A. Lawrence One truth does not displace another.
    Edward A. Lawrence
    American politician (1831 - 1883)
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  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Marcus Aurelius One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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