“We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.”

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

“I think all those ancient prophecies are so full of poetic nonsense that half the time no one understands what they mean." ~ Helen”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”

“It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.”

“Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.”