Fulke Greville Quotes
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
Greville, Fulke. Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satirical, and Moral. J. and R. Tonson, 1756.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
See Ben Franklin for an earlier similar sentiment {465143}.
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC, known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.
