Quotes About Lies And Half Truths

#1. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#2. He'd listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he'd collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or the exaggerated casualness of her posture. The woman was up to something. Heeding

Karen Witemeyer

#3. The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Edmund Burke

#4. At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.

Fred D'Aguiar

#5. In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.

Gary Hopkins

#6. 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

#7. Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them

Philip Reeve

#8. Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Timothy Garton Ash

#9. Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. 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

#11. Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.

Paula Hawkins

#13. Kindness is fate's currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#14. Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#15. You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Kate Atkinson

#16. It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. He's hidden behind lies and half-truths his entire life, so anytime he's faced with brutal honesty, he runs. It's just his nature.

Brandi Glanville

#18. 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

#19. My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

Gisele Bundchen

#20. It's cool now to play golf.

Tiger Woods

#21. Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.

Margaret Cho

#23. Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Langston Hughes

#24. The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#25. Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

George R R Martin

#26. Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Katherine Allred

#27. The problem with half-truths, I'm discovering, is that they are also half-lies.

Kimberly Belle

#28. I took in her shoes, the dark leather and bright red laces, the toes of the shoes like smirks and the high heels like stems or talons. They were cancan shoes. I'd never seen them before and so I stared at them. I'd

Alexander Chee

#29. The habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. Half truths are full lies.

Tionne Rogers

#31. half truths equal whole lies

Fred Munoz

#32. I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Mario Monti

#33. Those who don't read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Marilynne Robinson

#35. Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

David Limbaugh

#36. The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

Anna Quindlen

#37. Apollo: A man of honor never surrenders his ukelele.

Rick Riordan

#38. Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

Alexandra Bracken

#39. The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God. Paul

David Jeremiah

#40. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure

Erik Qualman

#41. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Charles Spurgeon