Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1376.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Truth never damages a cause that is just.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Browning Truth never hurts the teller.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Penn Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Matthew Arnold Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • W. Clement Stone Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Robert South Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • James Russell Lowell Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Edward Gibbon Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Samuel Johnson Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Abraham Cowley Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Giambattista Vico Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Aldous Huxley Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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