“The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.” KnowsFirstsSaidPrinciplesSubjectsTruth IsHighestScriptureChineseEmperor Author:Shunryu Suzuki
“Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.” GivingFirstsPersonsTwoPartySubjectsTruth IsVicesCreditEngagedInjuryIndulgeAbsentInjuredMonstrousIndulge InCalumnyCalumny Is Author:Herodotus
“I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.” ImportantMatterSilenceSubjectsTruth IsSilentFoolishDiscussionDisputes Author:Denis Diderot
“I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.” IfsThinkingHeartReasonLastsDecisionSubjectsTruth IsTaxesCriticismCourtGladSupremeViolentIncomeDiscussionDivisionAmendmentsSupreme CourtInjuredIncome TaxPrestigeSubstitutionConstitutional Amendments Author:William Howard Taft
“This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” PoliticalLyingLinesPartyLibertySubjectsMediaCitizensTruth IsMajorsCrossesFellowsProsperityCampaignsEmpiresConsensusTreasonBirthrightHereticClockworkStranglingSmear Campaigns Author:Ron Paul
“I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.” MenWantIdeasSidesKnownFiveFourSubjectsChangedTruth IsFairsDebateFixedAviationBoth Sides Author:H. L. Mencken
“I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.” MenSubjectsTruth IsEmpowermentAdmireFlunking Author:Frank Sinatra
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” FactsLyingEnjoyOpinionEnemySubjectsComfortTruth IsMythInterpretationDeliberatePersistentDiscomfortClichePersuasiveHold Fast Author:John F. Kennedy