Pastoral Resources

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Seek truth from facts.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.