By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King's dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.