Partial Truth Quotes

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have usually been wrong, must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

The courtroom oath—to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Guys hurt us first! There's always more to the story. We don't have that on the radio. You can't turn on the radio and hear what's really going on. You're going to hear the perspective from a guy.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. I was being economical with the truth.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

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

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.

Two half truths do not make a truth.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.