Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1376.

  • Edgar Quinet Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Richard Whately Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
    Steal This Book (1971) Free Education
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alva Myrdal War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Sebastian Faulks We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • David Mamet We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Horace We are free to yield to truth.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Candice S. Miller We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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  • Alexander Pope We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barry Unsworth We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Alison Lurie We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
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  • Malcolm X We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barnett Newman We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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