Top 100 Half Truth Sayings
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.
Nigel Warburton
#5. An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
Shailer Mathews
#6. 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
#7. An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
Karl Kraus
#8. Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
Shana Alexander
#10. The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
Ivan Panin
#13. Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
Robert Jordan
#15. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
#17. 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
#18. half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.
Deepak Goyal
#19. Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it ...
Terry McMillan
#20. 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
#21. But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth,
Will Durant
#22. 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
#23. It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie ...
Austin O'Malley
#24. Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth - in effect, a cruel distortion - and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#25. Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
Eric Hoffer
#26. When the public protests. confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizers pills of half truth.
Rachel Carson
#27. Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#28. There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#29. One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is the
large scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
#30. We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#32. A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Mark Twain
#33. Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews
#35. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Washington Allston
#36. Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
Orson Scott Card
#37. An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
George Orwell
#38. There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.
Joni Rodgers
#39. The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Jacques Barzun
#40. Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before - it's half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.
Kevin Hazzard
#41. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.
Tarek Saab
#42. Human half-truth logic, dates back to Adam and Eve, when he tried to deceive God with a truth, 'we knew we were naked so we hid', leaving God to understand that something was wrong with Adam's logic, because if Adam knew THE TRUTH, he would know that you can't hide from God.
Caesar J. B. Squitti
#43. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
Karl Kraus
#44. A half-truth masquerading as a whole truth becomes a complete untruth
J.I. Packer
#45. A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
Solon
#46. about you?" Thomas nodded, "I have three names, Mr. McGuire, Thomas Charles Hooper." James smiled back, "That's fine. How old might you be, Thomas?" "I'm seven." "Seven, boy? You're older than we thought," Captain McGuire smiled through the half-truth. "And, where are you from?" Thomas
C. T. Marshall
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
Jane Godwin
#52. You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
Ellis Peters
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
Clive Barker
#61. One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry Patmore
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Neil Kinnock
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
Truth Devour
#79. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#80. Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!
RYCJ
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
Carl Jung
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Elmer Davis
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Joss Whedon
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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.
#94. Everything is just a matter of perspective so that the quotes only half-truths .
Nagy Sandor
#96. Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
Multatuli
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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