Half Truth Quotes

Half Truth Quote of the day

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

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!

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

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

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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

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

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

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.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

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.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

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

Two half truths do not make a truth.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

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.

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears

Two half truths don't make one truth.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.