Quote by H. L. Mencken on Writing and Fulfillment
“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”
H. L. Mencken
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Hans-Peter Dürr on Local Solutions for Global Problems
“I don’t believe at all that global problems can be solved on a global scale. Nature, too, solves global problems by making local changes in a way that gradually expands to a larger scale. Personally, I would start with the energy problem.”
Hans-Peter Dürr
Nature as Partner: Quote by Hans-Peter Dürr
“We must not view nature as our enemy, something to be dominated and conquered, but rather learn once again to cooperate with nature. Nature has four and a half billion years of experience. Ours is considerably shorter.”
Hans-Peter Dürr
Unarmed Truth and Love – Martin Luther King Jr.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle: Truth by Eliminating the Impossible
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth and Democracy – Lyndon Johnson
“Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”
Lyndon Johnson
Quote by James Oliver Rigney about Truth and Lie
“Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.”
James Oliver Rigney
Truth and Consistency – Quote by Yogi Bhajan
“If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am a man of truth. It cannot be that on Monday I am a man of truth, on Tuesday I speak three-quarters truth, Wednesday I speak half-truth, on Thursday I speak one-quarter truth, on Friday I don’t speak at all, and on Saturday I can’t even think how to speak the truth.”
Yogi Bhajan
A Truth Told with Bad Intent Quote by William Blake
“A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
William Blake
Proverbs and Truth – William Mathews Quote
“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”
William Mathews