Quotes About Truth

I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to reëstablish the truth.

Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

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Part I opens the kimono with a hairy entrée into the global megaverse of top-tier management consulting, with these observations: 1. A bloodcurdling litany of betrayal and alcoholism 2. Behind-the-scenes truth about a very powerful, very short man 3. A lighthearted look at global consulting behemoth McKinsey and its resemblance to a certain Renaissance warmonger 4. Why your child will never go to Harvard Business School 5. A consulting hymnal and songbook3

for all the valuable insights big data provides, the Web remains a curated, idealized version of who we really are.

Visit any comedy club, or watch Bridesmaids, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy or Louis CK's routines on YouTube, and you'll realize that Americans pay comedians millions of dollars to talk about things most of them have felt, or thought, but never said in public. In

when I arrive at a new airport is handpick a taxi driven by a non-native. Foreign-born residents are likely to tell you the truth about a country and a population that natives can't or won't.

A parallel imperative cause for accepting the message was the Messenger himself, a man who was, they were certain, too full of truth to deceive and too full of wisdom to be self-deceived.

God is 'the Light', and this Name is partly equivalent to his Names 'the Truth' and 'the Knower'. Truth is the object of Knowledge, and both are Light as opposed to the darkness of error and ignorance. The Light is One, but it is manifested with different degrees of intensity throughout creation, degrees of guidance which radiate from Truth, and degrees of faith which radiate from Knowledge.

The hope of leadership lies in the capacity to deliver disturbing news and raise difficult questions in a way that people can absorb, prodding them to take up the message rather than ignore it or kill the messenger.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.