Quotes About Partial Truth

#1. A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.

Fred Munoz

#2. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.

Marlo Morgan

#3. With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.

S.A. Tawks

#4. Huntington argues that it is a partial truth, not a total truth, that America is a nation of immigrants; America is a nation of Anglo-Protestant settlers and immigrants both, with the former providing the philosophical and cultural backbone of the society.

Robert D. Kaplan

#5. Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Others called her "Truth," since it is said that "the truth is naked." But Miss Pao wasn't exactly without a stitch on, so they revised her name to "Partial Truth.

Qian Zhongshu

#7. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

Fred Munoz

#8. Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

Rod Dreher

#9. He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.

Eleanor Catton

#10. In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

Gudjon Bergmann

#11. The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington

#12. The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffler

#13. I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

James Maslow

#14. Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Vince Lombardi

#15. Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

Charles Kennedy

#16. She's the blood in my veins." He speaks clearly and softly. "She's the air in my lungs." There's a slight pause, and I'm sure I hear William inhale a shocked breath. "She's the bright, hopeful light in my tortured darkness. I'm warning you, Anderson. Don't try to take her away from me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#17. When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#18. But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor see anything, as long as he can justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

Edmund Leach

#20. If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

Lewis H. Lapham

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

Jacobus Arminius

#22. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#23. God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.

Martin Luther

#24. 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

#25. People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.

Robert Wright

#26. We need proof in our society.

Shirley Maclaine

#27. From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Donna J. Haraway

#28. All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. 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

#30. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

#31. At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Dan Gelber

#32. What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it
a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Italo Calvino

#33. The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

Gail Zappa

#34. The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Samuel Johnson

#35. All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#36. (Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Blaise Pascal

#37. Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

Enver Hoxha

#38. Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#39. Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#40. I'm partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Gene Robinson