Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1376.

• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

  Anais Nin
  French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

  Leo Rosten
  Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

  George Berkeley
  Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 - 1753)
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• Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
  

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Truth is the daughter of time.

  Aulus Gellius
  Roman author and grammarian
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• Truth is the glue that holds government together.

  Gerald R. Ford
  American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Truth is the trial of itself
  And needs no other touch,
  And purer than the purest gold,
  Refine it ne'er so much.

  The Touchstone of Truth

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
  

  Hunter S. Thompson
  American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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• Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

  Adam Duritz
  American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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• Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  Nadine Gordimer
  South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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• Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

  Friedrich von Schiller
  German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard
  French writer (1864 - 1910)
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• Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

  Carter G. Woodson
  American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• dramatizations
• application
• scholastics
• educational
• scientific
• deception

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