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Quotes About Partial

calcul serait partiel, car il y a des avortements
~ Éric Zemmour
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
~ Gillian Flynn
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication—a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. The
~ Gillian Flynn
It was only later that I came to learn how dangerous it is to allow yourself to be seduced by that first attractive theory. If you don't keep testing for alternatives, you might wind up satisfying yourself with, and proceeding on, what's no more than a partial truth. And a partial truth, I would understand soon enough, can be more dangerous than a lie.
~ Barry Eisler
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
~ John Stuart Mill
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
~ Aristotle
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
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.
~ Patti Page
We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.
~ Hutch Parker
I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.
~ Matthew Lewis
Mothers are notoriously partial. They would put up with almost anything. Such a small number of us would otherwise survive.
~ Tanith Lee
Our love can be no more partial than Jesus' love for all those he died to save
~ Francis Cardinal George, OMI
A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.
~ Fred Munoz
Von Neumann was in many ways a traditional mathematician, who (like Turing) believed he needed to turn to partial differential equations in describing natural systems.
~ Stephen Wolfram
There is so much bias for self-love, so much recklessness about truth in general, and so much of even a sincere faithlessness of narration, that no partial account of anything is to be trusted.
~ Kate Summerscale
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
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
~ George Boole
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
~ T. S. Eliot
Everything short of an explanation of the world as a whole is frustratingly partial. An explanation of the world must include an answer to why the world as a whole is just that way. And the only truly satisfying answer would be: because it's the best of all possible ones.
~ Susan Neiman
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
~ Vandana Shiva
Truth cannot be partial; it is for the good of all. Finally
~ Swami Vivekananda
A boy can be said to have partial knowledge of the counties of England, if he knows some of them and does not know others. But he could not be said to have incomplete knowledge of Sussex being an English county.
~ Gilbert Ryle