Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1376.

  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon The word of God is God, and therefore has to be revealed to you by God. When God's Holy Spirit reveals to you the meaning of His word, then you will recognize the truth of His word.
    Born of the Spirit
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  • Carl Sagan The words question and quest are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
    Brocas Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Jarrell The writer's real dishonesty is to give an easy paraphrase of the hard truth.
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Winston Churchill There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • André Maurois There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Agnes Repplier There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • William Hazlitt There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aleister Crowley There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bette Davis There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Jim Rohn There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Buddha There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Antisthenes There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Thomas Sowell There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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