Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.
Where are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
