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<\/p>\nWith fake news running wild, how do we know what’s true? Here’s what William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, George R. R. Martin and others have to say.<\/p>\n
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There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Captain Blood<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Rafael Sabatini<\/a><\/p>\n “Truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Confidence-Man<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Feast for Crows<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Orwell<\/a><\/p>\n “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n “Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Title<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Arnold Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Clash of Kings<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George R. R. Martin<\/a><\/p>\n “I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a><\/p>\n Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Professor at the Breakfast Table<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n “For truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Measure for Measure<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n With fake news running wild, how do we know what’s true? Here’s what William Shakespeare, Herman Melville, George R. R. Martin and others have to say.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[771,773,526,1159,463,775,639,100,1141,599,351,1160,826,737,705,645,1161,936,638,142],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-a-clash-of-kings","tag-a-feast-for-crows","tag-arnold-bennett","tag-captain-blood","tag-george-orwell","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-harriet-beecher-stowe","tag-herman-melville","tag-measure-for-measure","tag-nineteen-eighty-four","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-rafael-sabatini","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-the-adventure-of-the-beryl-coronet","tag-the-confidence-man","tag-the-professor-at-the-breakfast-table","tag-the-title","tag-topic1","tag-uncle-toms-cabin","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read More Quotes About Truth<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"