#ruth

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#duty #end #god #guide #him

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#established #falsehood #know #love #obscure

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#cup #down #embrace #enough #every

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#anything #conclusion #did #ever #forth

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law. ↗

— William Pepper

#alive #because #court #dies #establish

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great #great men #melancholy #men #poor

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ask #before #close #get #night

Official truths are often powerful illusions. ↗

— John Pilger

#official #often #powerful #truths

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#convincing #die #does #eventually #familiar

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ↗

— Max Planck

#attends #brings #enriches #happiness #him