Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1376.

• There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

  In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  De Profundis (1905)

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr
  Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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• There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr
  Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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• There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

  Arnold Bennett
  British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  Laura Riding
   
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• There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.

  William M. Peck
   
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• There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

  Irving Berlin
  American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

  Sir John Bowring
   
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• There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

  Arthur Erickson
  Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy
  Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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• There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

  Barbara Ward
  British economist
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• There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• There is no original truth, only original error.

  Gaston Bachelard
  French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

  Gregory Nunn
  American golf player (1955 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• discreditable
• developments
• realization
• fundamental
• revolutions

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