Pastoral Resources

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior,' he said. 'You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.