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The Whole Truth
«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.»
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
(Writer)
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«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... 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.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
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«What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.»
«Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
palpable, popular opinion, subjects, The Whole Truth
«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.»
«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»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
constituted, fragmented, fragments, fruition, glimpses, partial, The Whole Truth, Truth The
«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.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
reference to, reproduced, The Whole Truth