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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Truth, Lying, Deceit

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

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• A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

  Bernard Williams

  Lying, Half, Truth Is

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• 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

  Powerful, Lying, Believe

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• 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

  Jobs, Comforting, Purpose

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• Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

  David Limbaugh

  Lying, Half, Deceptive

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• 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

  Two, Half, Truth Is

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

  David Baldacci

  Truth, Inspire, Half

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.277, Pan Macmillan

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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 to the devil.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Half, Aphorism

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• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

  Solon

  Lying, Half, Truth Is

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• Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

  William Mathews

  Half, Pairs, Should

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.

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• It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

  Karl Kraus

  Half

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.157, Syracuse University Press

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don't speak at all, and on Saturday I can't even think how to speak the truth.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Friday, Monday, Communication

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

  Robert Jordan

  Art, Lying, Half

  "Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'".

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• 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

  Brain, Religion, Lame

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Lying, Half, Distinction

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Simple, Profound

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “The Doctor's Dilemma”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

  Multatuli

  Truth, Two, Half

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.48, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Half, Maxims

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• 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

  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• 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.

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Half

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love You, What Matters, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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

  Shailer Mathews

  Believe, Half, Persons

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• The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Teacher, Reality, Past

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