Pastoral Resources

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.