Whole Truth Quotes

Whole Truth Quote of the day

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Faith has need of the whole truth.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.