Karl Kraus Quotes
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
Kraus, Karl. Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms. Edited and translated by Harry Zohn, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
