Pastoral Resources

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

My body gets weak without truth.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.