Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with yo...
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something...
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.
Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
