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Quotes About Truth

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
~ Confucius
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
~ Edmund Burke
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
~ John Steinbeck
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
~ Mason Cooley
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
~ Aaron Huey
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
~ Randal Marlin
True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
~ Mercedes Lackey, Alta
Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
~ John Ruskin
Power factions fight back with lies.
~ Julian Assange
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
~ Kristin Hannah
Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
... Their power to see environments as they really are.
~ Marshall McLuhan
God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.
~ Paul Bremer
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
~ Oscar Wilde
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.
~ Ray Dalio