Quotes About Half-truth

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

The claim that nations and nationalism are modern ideological constructs invented by intellectuals and spread by means of state authority and the state's apparatuses is a misleading half-truth that is itself a modernist (or postmodernist) ideological construct originating with intellectuals and requiring deconstruction.

The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché "Write what you know." It is very much a cliché, and it is going to get rather rough treatment over the course of this book. Yet, like most clichés, it has the residual virtue of being a halftruth.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

Der Aphorismus deckt sich nie mit der Wahrheit; er ist entweder eine halbe Wahrheit oder anderthalb.

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.

Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon? What? Half-imaginary.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Newspapers reported on the disease with the same mixture of truth and half-truth, truth and distortion, truth and lies with which they reported everything else. And no national official ever publicly acknowledged the danger of influenza.