Top 100 Half Truth Sayings
#1. He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
Erwin Chargaff
#2. It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
George Eliot
#3. Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
William Shakespeare
#4. At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
Jane Godwin
#6. Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.
Annie Hughes
#7. You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
Ellis Peters
#8. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.
Arthur C. Clarke
#9. I could only approach girls half my age, so I never brought any girl home. Mom thought I was disciplined, but the truth is that I was deprived.
Nick Nwaogu
#10. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.
Peter David
#11. I couldn't help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.
Alexandra Bracken
#12. A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Anurag Shourie
#13. If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
Sojourner Truth
#15. Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
John Fowles
#16. We had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.
Joseph Conrad
#17. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
Clive Barker
#18. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.
Nigel Warburton
#19. One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry Patmore
#20. Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."
--On Orson Welles
Bernard Herrmann
#22. Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.
John Gimlette
#23. Sometimes the hardest thing about the truth is putting down the misassumptions, falsehoods, and half-truths that stand between it and you. Sometimes that's the last thing that anybody wants to do. And sometimes, it's the only thing we can do.
Mira Grant
#25. It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#26. Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Neil Kinnock
#27. Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie.
Tahereh Mafi
#28. One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
John Burroughs
#29. An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
Shailer Mathews
#30. Do you want a half-truth or truth?" "Truth." "Then you will have to trust me." His voice was suddenly softer than the fire sounds, melting into the silence within the stones. "Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope. Trust me." Morgon
Patricia A. McKillip
#31. The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader ...
Rick Riordan
#32. People in this town saw only what they'd all agreed to see, they believed what was on the tube or in the morning papers half of them read while they were driving to work on the freeway, and it was all their dream about being wised up, about the truth setting them free.
Thomas Pynchon
#33. In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#34. Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
Gore Vidal
#35. Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#36. We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
Richard Le Gallienne
#37. An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
Karl Kraus
#38. Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
Shana Alexander
#40. Of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up
and the clock wants to be set going
(how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one)
amputated limbs feel phantom pain
Katarina Mazetti
#41. Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
Truth Devour
#42. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!
RYCJ
#44. I am happy with you." It was only a half-lie. In truth, being with him made me happier than anything. But it was a bittersweet happiness because from this moment on, it would be overshadowed with the wait and wonder of when and how our relationship would dissolve.
Alicia Kobishop
#45. The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.
John Cheever
#47. The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
Carl Jung
#48. 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
#49. You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Idries Shah
#50. When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Elmer Davis
#51. My legs are still shaking. I was gone for less than twenty minutes and only went about half a mile, but I feel like I'm back from a tour in Vietnam. This is really fucked up. I thought I'd feel like the hero of an action movie. Truth is, I feel like prey who doesn't know where the hunters are.
Manel Loureiro
#52. Augie. You're a good girl," said Dad. This was more hope than truth. "You're nine and a half."
"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.
Zach Weinersmith
#53. Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Joss Whedon
#54. That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness.
Hermann Hesse
#56. She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.
To be saved by her love.
No more half-truths. No more omissions.
Linnea Sinclair
#57. The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.
A.D. Aliwat
#58. The ultimate end ... is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
Aristotle.
#59. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
Ivan Panin
#60. Everything is just a matter of perspective so that the quotes only half-truths .
Nagy Sandor
#61. Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
Robert Jordan
#63. Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
Multatuli
#64. At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't that all religions were equally valid but that they were equally nonsensical.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#67. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.
Viktor E. Frankl
#68. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
#69. The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
#70. I know what it's like when you can't get no one to listen to you. When what you say don't matter. I half think every girl knows what it's like to be silenced.
A.C. Gaughen
#71. If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.
Mark W. Boyer
#72. When I see a dancing butterfly,
When I see a half blooming flower,
Their eager wish to make this world happy,
My mind dances with joy,
My soul emerges in happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. Political truths are like colors in the rainbow, they may be true, except like the color purple which is created in the mind, however they are not THE WHOLE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, colorless and yet all colors, seen and unseen.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
#76. A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.
Gene Ruyle
#77. half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.
Deepak Goyal
#78. There is always half a truth in cliche.
Sarah Hall
#79. The Truth is different than human truths; they are like LIGHT.
Truths are like a color, absolute and true, while THE TRUTH is all colors and still colorless; the duality of Truth.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
#80. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#81. If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish
Mark Frost
#82. Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.
Jack Thanatos
#84. Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
David Baldacci
#85. I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
J. D. Souther
#86. African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.
Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
#87. Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ...
Terry McMillan
#88. Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#89. I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.'
She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony.
Val McDermid
#90. I've played with so many people that I never really noticed that I was playing with so many people until after it was compiled on the Internet. I just kept going. I haven't even heard half the records I've played on, to tell you the truth.
Harvey Mason Jr.
#91. When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
P.D. Ouspensky
#92. Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.
David Frum
#93. In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.
Khalil Gibran
#94. Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth
Tad Williams
#95. But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth,
Will Durant
#96. Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture
Arthur Koestler
#97. The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Michael Flanders
#98. It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie ...
Austin O'Malley
#99. There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
#100. How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?
Nikki Rowe
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