Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 901 till 920 of 1376.

  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Paul Auster The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
    (2008)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Euripides The language of truth is simple.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Robertson Davies The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • A. E. Housman The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Augustus William Hare The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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