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"Half-truth" Quotes from Famous Books

... half-truth. Kami says, when he puts his head on one side,— so, 'Il y a du sentiment, mais il n'y a pas de parti pris.'" He rolled the r threateningly, ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... is prompted to draw on his imagination for his facts, but the poet of nature must first of all be true, and incidentally as beautiful and good as may be; and a half-truth or a truth with a reservation may be as dangerous as falsehood. The poet who should so paint the velvety beauty of a rattlesnake as to make you long to coddle it would hardly be considered a safe character to be at large. Likewise ...

— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

... essentially accurate. A standard wholly false may have its error demonstrated with comparative ease; but no servitude is more hopeless than that of unintelligent submission to an idea formally correct, yet incomplete. It has all the vicious misleading of a half-truth unqualified by appreciation of modifying conditions; and so seamen who disdained theories, and hugged the belief in themselves as "practical," became doctrinaires ...

— Types of Naval Officers - Drawn from the History of the British Navy • A. T. Mahan

... goods. Second, I should say that even if there were no such thing as personal property, there would still be such a thing as personal dignity, and different modes of robbery would diminish it in very different ways. Similarly, there is a truth, but only a half-truth, in the saying that all modern Powers alike rely on the Capitalist and make war on the lines of Capitalism. It is true, and it is disgraceful. But it is not equally true and equally disgraceful. It is not true that Montenegro is as much ruled by financiers as Prussia, ...

— Utopia of Usurers and other Essays • G. K. Chesterton

... them. Though a supplication in form, the request is unlike his father's humble and almost cringing papers, being rather a demand for justice than a petition for favor; it is unlike them in another respect, because it contains a falsehood, or at least an utterly misleading half-truth: a statement that he had shortened his leave because of his mother's ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... others about. But I do not want to find fault with him. If he does not settle all the points he speaks of so authoritatively, he sets me thinking about them, and I like a man as a companion who is not afraid of a half-truth. I know he says some things peremptorily that he may inwardly debate with himself. There are two ways of dealing with assertions of this kind. One may attack them on the false side and perhaps gain a conversational victory. But I like better ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Words linked to "Half-truth" : deceit, misrepresentation, deception