Quotes with half-truth

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  • Barry Malzberg There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 16
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  • Martin Luther There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • David Lloyd George There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Allan Bloom There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Charles Sanders Pierce There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bayard Taylor There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Dorothy Parker There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Norman Mailer There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Maya Angelou There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Ben Folds There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
    While the world is watching
    All you need is the thing you forgotten
    And that's to learn to live with what you are.
    Lyrics Learn to Live with What You Are, Supersunnyspeedgr
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Amy Winehouse There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
    Amy Winehouse
    English singer and songwriter (1983 - 2011)
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  • Bjork There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Alexander Cockburn They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Aneurin Bevan This is my truth, tell me yours.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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