Quotes about Whole Truth

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Votes: 4

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. Votes: 4

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. Votes: 4

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Votes: 4

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Votes: 4

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. Votes: 4

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Humor is the whole truth. Votes: 3

Faith has need of the whole truth. Votes: 3

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth. Votes: 3

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths. Votes: 3

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth. Votes: 3

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth. Votes: 3

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. Votes: 3

The whole truth... sings only -and all lovers are the song Votes: 3

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. Votes: 3

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth. Votes: 3

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. Votes: 3

I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary. Votes: 3

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Votes: 3

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. Votes: 3

If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. Votes: 3

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view. Votes: 3

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth. Votes: 3

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. Votes: 3

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion. Votes: 3

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. Votes: 3

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. Votes: 3

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth. Votes: 3

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth. Votes: 3

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Votes: 3

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears. Votes: 3

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't. Votes: 3

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. Votes: 3

Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Votes: 3

Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same? Votes: 3

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. Votes: 3

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do. Votes: 3

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still. Votes: 3

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. Votes: 3

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have? Votes: 3

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. Votes: 3

I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have gills. Votes: 3

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. Votes: 3

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man. Votes: 3

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now." Votes: 3

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing. Votes: 3

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Votes: 3

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance. Votes: 3

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real. Votes: 3

I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas--who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone. Votes: 3

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either. Votes: 3

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body. Votes: 3

I still believe there is a lot of truth in Orthodox Judaism, but not the whole truth. Each person has his truth that he has to discover. You don't necessarily have to mold yourself to another idea of who you are. Votes: 3

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. Votes: 3

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards. Votes: 3

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Votes: 3

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. Votes: 3

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem. Votes: 3

It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it. Votes: 3

a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward. Votes: 3

It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality which the truth expresses, and that can only be realized as we allow ourselves to be caught into the mighty on-flowing tide of the Spirit. Votes: 3

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice? Votes: 3

Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said. Votes: 3

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life. Votes: 2

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. Votes: 2

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Votes: 2

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. Votes: 2

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 2

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Votes: 2

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life. Votes: 2

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. Votes: 2

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb. Votes: 2

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth. Votes: 2

One word of truth outweighs the whole world. Votes: 0

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie. Votes: 0

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life Votes: 0

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. Votes: 0

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.... Votes: 0

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie. Votes: 0

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not. Votes: 0

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living. Votes: 0

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth. Votes: 0

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world Votes: 0

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Votes: 0

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth. Votes: 0

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Votes: 0

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. Votes: 0

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. Votes: 0

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. Votes: 0

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience. Votes: 0

Truth and effort may increase human worthBut they are not enough to make us whole;Only love can complete us. Votes: 0

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. Votes: 0

Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. Votes: 0

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world. Votes: 0

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. Votes: 0

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth. Votes: 0

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there. Votes: 0

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. Votes: 0

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back. Votes: 0

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community. Votes: 0

Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being. Votes: 0

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego. Votes: 0

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole. Votes: 0

The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you. Votes: 0

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot. Votes: 0

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it. Votes: 0

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it. Votes: 0

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself. Votes: 0

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. Votes: 0

This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole. Votes: 0

The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may. Votes: 0

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. Votes: 0

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart. Votes: 0

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. Votes: 0

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy Votes: 0

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless. Votes: 0

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own. Votes: 0

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. Votes: 0

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it! Votes: 0

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that Votes: 0

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. Votes: 0

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence. Votes: 0

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. Votes: 0