Partial Truth Quotes

• Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom   Synthesis   Kingdoms  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political   Truth Is   Individual  

  Kenneth L. Smith, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ira G. Zepp (1986). “Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.

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  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love   Wisdom   Flower  

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• Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

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  George Boole

  Probability Theory   Perfect   Expectations  

  Collected Logical Works Volume II An Investigation of the Law of Thought Chapter XVI (p. 258)

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• They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.

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  Marlo Morgan

  Inspirational   Lying   People  

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

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  Rod Dreher

  Ideology   Partial Truth   Whole  

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• The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

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  Alvin Toffler

  Errors   Recognition   Metaphor  

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• I’m partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Indifferent   Partial Truth  

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.180, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

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  Samuel P. Huntington

  Half   Insidious   Partial Truth  

  Samuel P. Huntington (2004). “Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

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  Gene Robinson

  Our World   Understanding God   Body  

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• 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.

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  William Osler

  Life   Humility   Men  

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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