Quotes with half-truth

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1376.

  • David Mamet Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Nicholas Butler America is the best half-educated country in the world.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Philip James Bailey America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Alan Dundes Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Karl Kraus An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Shailer Mathews An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
    Shailer Mathews
    American theologian (1863 - 1941)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Kahlil Gibran An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bayard Taylor And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Buck Owens And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • George Eliot And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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