quotes about Partial Truth

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2004). “Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.
-- Rod Dreher

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“Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?”
“The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.”
“I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.”
“You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.”
“It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.”
“No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.”
“I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.”
“...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.50, University of Missouri Press
“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.”
“Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.”