Quote by Eric Hoffer

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an abs

Summary

This quote implies that by adding a small amount of negativity or distortion to a partially true statement, it can become something that is perceived as completely truthful. It suggests the power of manipulation and how slight adjustments can alter the perception of reality. In essence, it warns about the potential dangers of spreading misinformation or intentionally manipulating information to shape public opinion.

Topics

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

My parents started a business out of the living room of our

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real l

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Reality Dream Classics

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a c

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

On Writing On Reading

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Samuel G. Goodrich

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kid

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

To pray, I think, does not mean to think about God in contra

To pray, I think, does not mean to think about God in contrast to thinking about other things, or to spend time with God instead of spending time with other people. Rather, it means to think and live in the presence of God. As soon as we begin to divide our thoughts about God and thoughts about people and events, we remove God from our daily life and put him into a pious little niche where we can think pious thoughts and experience pious feelings. ... Although it is important and even indispensable for the spiritual life to set apart time for God and God alone, prayer can only become unceasing prayer when all our thoughts -- beautiful or ugly, high or low, proud or shameful, sorrowful or joyful -- can be thought in the presence of God. ... Thus, converting our unceasing thinking into unceasing prayer moves us from a self-centred monologue to a God-centred dialogue.

Henri Nouwen, Clowning in Rome

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three mon

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death t

Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens.

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise?

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not s

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe