The German poet Matthias Claudius commented some years ago,
Say not all that you know, but know all that you say.
Spiegel Online International thinks that’s good advice in a particular circumstance today:
That would be a good lesson for those politicians who are handling the euro crisis. Absolute honesty, which many are now demanding of the German government after its most recent comments on Greece, is simply not wise.
SOI justifies their position this way: