Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1376.

  • Adrienne Rich When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Walter Lippmann When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Barry White When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • William Blake When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Gracie Allen When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
    Gracie Allen
    American comedian (1895 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carl Sandburg When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Butler When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
    A Distant Mirror Admiral Jean de Vienne, quoted on p. 559
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Jacques Prevert When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Aldous Huxley When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lao-Tzu When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Kahlil Gibran When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
    De Profeet (1923) p. 29
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Andrew Cohen When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bill Copeland When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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