A Quote by Diogenes Laertius

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

Diogenes Laertius

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Half More Said Than Whole

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Diogenes Laertius
Greek - Philosopher

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Joanna Baillie

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

Trenton Lee Stewart

It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

Kurt Koffka

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

Neil Gershenfeld

What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.

Haruki Murakami

There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".

Plutarch

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

John C. Malone

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Ivan Panin

I remember when I first came out, it was like half and half, half the female fighters were like, 'I understand why she did it, and I'll fight her,' and half said I shouldn't be in the cage and said horrible, horrific transphobic comments about me.