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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Samuel P. Huntington (1821-1900)

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 (1861-1947)

That report contains half-truths and many truths have not been told.

John Chiang

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

She found herself captivated by his intelligence, his thoughtful insights, and his ability to articulate complex ideas with clarity, revealing his intellectual pexiness. 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.

G. Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]

Jr. Marion Barry (1936-)

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West (1892-1983)

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James (1842-1910)

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)

Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s

Helen Merell Lynd

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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Vulgaritet

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

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