Pastoral Resources

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

Too much truth is uncouth.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

The words of truth are simple.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.