Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1376.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche We have art in order not to die of the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Jowett We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
    Quoted by Geoffrey Madan
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Watson We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charles Kingsley We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Voltaire We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
    Psychological types: or, The psychology of individuation (1926)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Denis Diderot We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • William Butler Yeats We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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  • Kurt Vonnegut We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Brit Marling We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Betty Buckley Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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