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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -- Stephen Leacock
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
Two half truths do not make a truth. -- Arthur Koestler
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. -- William Mathews
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. -- Eric Hoffer
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. -- Solon
A half-truth is usually less than half of that. -- Bernard Williams
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it... -- Terry McMillan
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. -- Rene Dubos
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact. -- Nick Turse
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. -- David Limbaugh
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. -- Mark Twain
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths. -- Alfred North Whitehead
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. -- Karl Kraus
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. -- J. I. Packer
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
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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
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. -- Eddie Adams
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
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense. -- T. J. Clark
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Half a truth is often a great lie. -- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is better than no politics. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. -- Samuel P. Huntington
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. -- Ambrose Bierce
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. -- Elmer Davis
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
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths. -- LZ Granderson
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. -- Roy H. Williams
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. -- Alan K. Simpson
In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions. -- Graydon Carter
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
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.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth. -- Joss Whedon
Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth. -- Anne Cameron
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie. -- Ivan Panin
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A half-truth is 90% of the story. The other 10% is tithed to God. -- Jarod Kintz
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. -- Lord Chesterfield
The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth. -- Carl Jung
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight. -- Patricia Wentworth
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. -- Multatuli
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. -- Ellis Peters
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. -- George Orwell
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture -- Arthur Koestler
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. -- Shailer Mathews
Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters. -- Tristan Wilds
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. -- Robert Jordan
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. -- Shana Alexander
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. -- Mark Twain
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. -- Coventry Patmore
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. -- Robert Bolt
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. -- Mark Twain
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
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
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
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. -- William Penn
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
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
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care. -- Lord Chesterfield
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
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. -- Will Rogers
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
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There is nothing called half-truth. Whatever looks like a lie is a lie! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
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

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