“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”– Joe Biden Related Quotes “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”– Friedrich Nietzsche “The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.”– Chanakya “No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”– William Osler