901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.

3758. One half of the World wonders how the other lives.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

The image of the world is half the world.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Half of humanity doesn’t know what it wants or how to find out. The other half knows what it wants, hasn’t got it, and is going crazy trying to convince itself that it already has it.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.