Pastoral Resources

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Justice is the truth in action.

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.