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~ Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers ~

~ A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ~

~ Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God. ~

Paramahansa Yogananda

~ In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity. ~

Walter J. Phillips

~ All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~

Richard Avedon

~ All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~

Richard Avedon

~ To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things ~

Ansel Adams

~ As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth ~

William Hazlitt

~ Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. ~

Jean-Luc Godard

~ It is not only my right and my privilege to walk in the abundance God has for me, it is my responsibility...just as it is my responsibility to live the rest of my truth ~

Jan Denise

~ By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth ~

George Carlin

~ By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth ~

George Carlin

~ As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. ~

William Hazlitt

~ In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite ~

Edward Albee

~ Philosophy is the science which considers truth ~

Aristotle

~ God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

~ In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side ~

Theodore Forstmann

~ The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. ~

Charley Reese

~ Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ~

Simone De Beauvoir

~ The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ~

Dame Edith Sitwell

~ Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~

Spanish proverb

~ Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth ~

James Allen

~ Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond ~

Persian proverb

~ It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. ~

Joseph Hall

~ It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. ~

Joseph Hall

~ Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,--as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon. ~

Thomas Hartwell Horne

~ It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it ~

Patrick Henry

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