Metaphorically True/Quotes
Max: You killed him! |
A halbe emes iz a gantse lign. —Yiddish proverb
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And I will not lie to you —The Kaiser Chiefs, Half the Truth
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Jedi Exile: Well, lying is lying, even from a "certain point of view."
—Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
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Obi Wan: What I told you was true...from a certain point of view. |
Harry: I've never lied to you, I've always told you some version of the truth. —Something's Gotta Give
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Laura: But... I thought you said you worked in a hotel? How can you afford this?! |
In a manner of speaking, yes. In another manner of speaking, which is a rather more precise and accurate manner of speaking, no.
—Carrot's father, Guards! Guards!
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The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes, look behind words that have changed their meaning.
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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. —The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
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Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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