An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
ATTRIBUTION:
Karl Kraus (18741936), Austrian satirist. repr. In Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud: Karl Krauss Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry, ch. 8 (1976). Die Fackel, no. 270/71 (Vienna, January 19, 1909).