How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
Justice is truth in action.
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sente...
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous oc...
Self-awareness is the key to self-fulfillment.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
It's a truth universally acknowledged...
The Law is the Law!
I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. { .}
Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.
I'm a really bad liar.
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
