Partial Truths Quotes

#1. The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

Julianna Margulies

#2. A poor generous man is greatly praised.
A stingy rich man is greatly despised.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.

Elena Ferrante

#4. Lies and partial truths complicate life.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#5. Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

Michael Hirst

#7. I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

Natalie Zea

#8. 'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception.

Krista Tippett

#9. The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

Aristotle.

#10. 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

#11. As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#12. Write. Publish. Repeat.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#13. Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths.

Jacobus Arminius

#15. Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington

#16. To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

Alice Hoffman

#18. After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.

Nirmala Srivastava

#19. The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Mark Twain

#20. I kind of went from bi-curious to bisexual in the space of time it took you to agree to fuck me.

Cecil Wilde