Whole Truth Quotes

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

  J. I. Packer

  Half, Truth Is, Whole

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• All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ocean, Humility, Glimpse

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

  Charles A. Dana

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Half

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  Dialogues prologue (1954)

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• No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

  William Osler

  Life, Humility, Men

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

  Eric Carr

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Truth, Genius

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.

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• You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Creative Writers, Creative Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Truth, Comfort

  "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Halloween, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.45, OUP Oxford

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• you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

  P. D. James

  Nothing But The Truth, Oath, Swear

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.203, Faber & Faber

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• If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

  Lucinda Roy

  Gossip, May, Telling The Truth

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• The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Catholic, Half, Vices

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• I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

  George Orwell

  Trying, Instinct, Hard

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Views, Arrogant

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• Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Science, Half, Deny

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Children, Hate

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

  Gordon Allport

  Science, Being True, Theist

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• There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Truth, Whole, Knows

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.206, Open Road Media

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