A small heap of colored glass tiles beside a kaleidoscope tube on a charcoal surface.

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Karl Menninger

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A pile of facts sounds trustworthy, but the speaker says it can be quite misleading, because the same facts can be arranged to tell many different stories. Selection and framing can turn true pieces into a false picture.

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