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Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.
— Alexandra Bracken
Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.
— Nigel Warburton
A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.
— Gene Ruyle
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
— Mark Twain
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
— Lord Chesterfield
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R R Martin
Half a truth is better than no politics.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
— Anurag Shourie
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
— Karl Kraus
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
— David Baldacci
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
— Coventry Patmore
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
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
— David Limbaugh
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
— Bernard Williams
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
— Shana Alexander
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
— Ambrose Bierce
Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.
— Jack Thanatos
I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.
— Emilyann Girdner
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.
— Patricia Wentworth
Two half truths do not make a truth.
— Arthur Koestler
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
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.
— Katherine Allred
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Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
— Jane Godwin
The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.
— A.D. Aliwat
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
— Erwin Chargaff
Half a truth is often a great lie
— Benjamin Franklin
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
— William Mathews
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
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
— Sojourner Truth
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
Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.
— Truth Devour
I wish people had half the honor of dragons.
— Terry Goodkind
African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.
— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.
— Mark W. Boyer
But here's the truth: In movies, it's never half so lovely as it is here and now with Jase.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There is always half a truth in cliche.
— Sarah Hall
The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie ...
— Austin O'Malley
the lies of the creative artist are truer than the truth of the half-sleeping ordinary man
— Malcolm D. Allen
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
— Elmer Davis
He wears a beard and his face is half Christ and half satyr and his face tells the truth.
— John Steinbeck
He tells not a half truth, but a truth and a half
— Nicholas Shakespeare
I couldn't help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.
— Alexandra Bracken
half truths equal whole lies
— Fred Munoz
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
— Mark Twain
Half the truth is often a whole lie.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
— Robert Jordan
One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth's and manipulated facts — Oche Otorkpa
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.
— Mary Renault
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
An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
— Shailer Mathews
Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.
— Annie Hughes
Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth.
— Anne Cameron
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
— Stephen Leacock
It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.
— Viktor E. Frankl
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
— Mark Twain
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
A half truth is a whole lie
— Amy Fellner Dominy
A half-truth is a whole lie, my mother says.
— Michelle Hodkin
A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
— Alex Flinn
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
— G.K. Chesterton
But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth,
— Will Durant
Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
— Ellis Peters
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
— Joss Whedon
half truth can be more harmful than a full lie.
— Deepak Goyal
