While I find it accurate that the truth could never be told so as to be understood and not be believed, this entails several problems. The speaker must be able to express the idea of the truth so that it is possible to be understood, and the listener must be able to understand it. Thus even if one can divine a truth, it may never be possible to communicate it to another person. And unfortunately the reciprocals and negations are not true, that which can be believed is not always truth and just because you don't believe something does not make it false. Too many people believe things just because they sound like truth or believe things to be false because they don't understand, and far too many people are good at making lies sound like truth and confounding truths to sound like lies.
“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.” - William Blake.
"Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth." - Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son
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