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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 habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?
— Joakim Zander
Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.
— Alexandra Bracken
As far as Nicholas was concerned, half-truths only added up to a whole lie. Glancing
— Alexandra Bracken
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R R Martin
It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.
— Donald Barthelme
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
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
— David Baldacci
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
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
— George Bernard Shaw
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
— Wendy Lesser
Two half truths do not make a truth.
— Arthur Koestler
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
— George Eliot
The night is full of shadows and half truths
— Mark Jackson
He's hidden behind lies and half-truths his entire life, so anytime he's faced with brutal honesty, he runs. It's just his nature.
— Brandi Glanville
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
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.
— Gary Hopkins
Quite half of the human race was in tears.
— Marcel Proust
The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.
— Baltasar Gracian
Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.
— Leigh Bardugo
Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
— Kate Atkinson
Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.
— Hyman Rickover
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
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
— Samuel P. Huntington
One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a chance, tell you.
— Christina Engela
Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
— Paula Hawkins
Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
— Russell Jacoby
The half-truths have been in fashion again.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Half truths are full lies.
— Tionne Rogers
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
half truths equal whole lies
— Fred Munoz