Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1376.

• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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• The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

  Alfred Loisy
  French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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• The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

  Bruce Cockburn
  Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

  C.E.M. Joad
   
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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Tuckerman
   
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• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

  Henrik Ibsen
  Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

  The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (1960)

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

  George Brandes
   
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• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb
  English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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• The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  B. C. Forbes
  American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

  Hermann Hesse
  German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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• The truth hurts, but silence kills.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

  Frederick the Great
  King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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• The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

  Umberto Eco
  Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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• The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

  Yoshida Kenko
  Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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• The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• prophylactic
• introduction
• associates
• projection
• dramatists
• recognized

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