The temptation grows to relativize moral principles and to privilege process over truth.

Mathematicians, artists and writers may choose beauty over truth.

Do we really want to place loyalty over truth?

And when the corporate and comic muses fall into conflict, it is generally less over truth than beauty.

Others frankly admit that civic uplift must sometimes take priority over truth.

"Press freedom cannot take precedence over truth or the general interest," he said.

The wise heads have puzzled so sorely over truth because they went up into the air after it.

They have chosen tactics over truth with such consistency that it's impossible to accept anything they say.