Pastoral Resources

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

Truth is the best defense.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.