Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 921 till 940 of 1376.

  • Lord Shaftesbury The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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  • Eva Figes The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • T.B. Macauly The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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  • Umberto Eco The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 527
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Philip Roth The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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  • George Orwell The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Epictetus The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Hitopadesa The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Barry Marshall The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Bob Graham The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bert Lance The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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