Quotes with half-truths

Quotes 321 till 340 of 425.

  • G. C. Lichtenberg The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Eva Figes The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
    Eva Figes
     
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Anais Nin The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • John Williamson The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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  • Albion W. Small The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
    Albion W. Small
    American sociologist and editor (1854 - 1926)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Carl Sagan The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Robert Half The search for someone to blame is always successful.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • C.E.M. Joad The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
    C.E.M. Joad
     
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  • Ernest Renan The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Anne Rice The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Og Mandino The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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