Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1376.

• A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

  Alexis Carrel
  French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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• A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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• A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.

  Laughing Matters Act one: Satire

  Lee Siegel
  American academic (1945 - )
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• A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

  William Shenstone
  English poet (1714 - 1763)
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• A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

  Aesop
  Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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• A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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• A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

  Tim O'Brien
  American novelist (1946 - )
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• A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

  Patrick Kavanagh
  Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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• A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

  Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

  Epictetus
  Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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• A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck
  German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• observations
• uncharitable
• determines
• possession
• scientific
• convincing

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