Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1376.

  • Pearl Bailey You never find yourself until you face the truth.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Ben Horowitz You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henrik Ibsen You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Bob Newhart You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Alan Cohen You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Sam Rayburn You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
    Sam Rayburn
    American politician (1882 - 1961)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery 'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Fuller A man surprised is half beaten.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Pablo Picasso Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • William James As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Macdonald But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Thomas Fuller Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Kahlil Gibran In truth we talk only to ourselves, but sometimes we talk loud enough that others may hear us.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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