Big Books of 2026

Half Truth Quotes

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Michael Bassey Johnson
“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: bad-influence, belief, bible, christianity, exaggeration, fabrication, false-prophets, falsification, gospel, half-truth, liar, lie, mendacity, philosophy, religion, sugar-coated, sweet, taste, truth, untruth
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Criss Jami
“How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.”
― Criss Jami, Healology
tags: accuracy, blog, college, confusion, deceit, education, facts, false-knowledge, falsehood, funny, funny-but-true, gossip, half-truth, humor, information, information-technology, intelligence, internet, knowledge, libel, lies, media, misinformation, news, propaganda, rumors, school, slander, social-media, statistics, statistics-humor, technology, truth, university, wisdom
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Alexandra Bracken
“Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
tags: half-truth, liar, lie, lies, truth
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Anurag Shourie
“A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.”
― Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
tags: dangerous, half, half-truth, half-truths, lies, lies-quotes, mislead, truth, truth-and-lies, truth-quotes, truthful
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Alexandra Bracken
“I couldn't help but wonder if he had picked up on my half-truht as easily as I had picked up on his.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
tags: half-truth
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“Two half truths don't make one truth.”
― Joseph Julius Bonkowski Jr., "Quote Me" the Book of All New Quotes
tags: alternative-facts, half-truth, half-truths, liar, lying, misinformation, misleading
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Crime does not pay … if you get caught.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: crime, half-truth, illusion
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: bad-people, bad-person, frank, good-people, good-person, half-truth, honesty, lying, straightforward, truth
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
tags: blank, distrust, fade, fading, fleeting, forever, half-truth, lair, lies, long-term, sense, temporal, time-will-tell
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“Sometimes, half truth, the know it all, self righteouness, hypocrasy atitude is what is keep the youth out of church.
God help me if am going to be a mother some day.”
― Mary Tornyenyor
tags: half-truth
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Jason Medina
“The report made them out to be monsters, although there was another untold side to the story, their side. It did not matter. Their side would probably never be told.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
tags: an-undead-novel, exaggeration, half-truth, jason-medina, lies, monsters, point-of-view, report, the-manhattanville-incident, truth
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H. Rider Haggard
“He who speaks but half the truth is sometimes more mischievous than a liar.”
― H. Rider Haggard, Moon of Israel
tags: half-truth, half-truths, lying, truth, truth-quotes
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“Creative interpretation of the truth is a lie.”
― - Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.
tags: deception, fabrication, false, half-truth, lie, mislead, truth, untruth
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“Someone not showing all their cards, forces you into a game of questionable unknowns.”
― Wyatt B Pringle, Jr.
tags: deception, game, half-truth, trickery, withhold
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