Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 941 till 960 of 1376.

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

  Vernon God Little

  D.B.C. Pierre
  Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  Edith Sitwell
   
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• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

  Harvard, 14-06-1956

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  Northrop Frye
  Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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• The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

  Clarence Darrow
  American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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• The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

  Allan Bloom
  American writer (1930 - 1992)
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• The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.

  R. W. Dale
   
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• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  Edmond de Goncourt
  French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

  Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center

  Bill Clinton
  President of the US (1946 - )
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• The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

  Shana Alexander
  American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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• The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

  Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  Adam Clarke
  British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• The search for someone to blame is always successful.

  Robert Half
  American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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Subjects in these quotes:

• existentially
• dissemination
• irresponsible
• consciousness
• destruction
• literature

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