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Two half truths do not make a truth. -- Arthur Koestler
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus
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
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
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
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
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 a truth is often a great lie. -- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is better than no politics. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A half-truth is usually less than half of that. -- Bernard Williams
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
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. -- Stephen Leacock
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. -- Elmer Davis
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
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
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
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
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
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'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.
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths. -- Mason Cooley
Half-truths are the devil's IOUs. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies. -- George R. R. Martin
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. -- Wendy Lesser
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. -- David Limbaugh
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. -- David Baldacci
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. -- George Eliot
Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. -- Hyman Rickover
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. -- Alain Vigneault
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth. -- Multatuli
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. -- George Bernard Shaw
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture -- Arthur Koestler
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. -- Russell Jacoby
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. -- Kate Atkinson
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. -- Alfred North Whitehead
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
There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
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
Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths. -- Patricia Churchland
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears. -- Eric Linklater
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
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
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
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise. -- Okakura Kakuzo

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