Whole truth Quotes

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

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

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

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story.

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

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Faith has need of the whole truth.

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.

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.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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.

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

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