“What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum located between red and violet; the remaining 95 percent of all existing light (cosmic, infrared, ultraviolet, gammas, and x-rays) we cannot see. This means that we only perceive 5 percent of the “real” world.” – Amos Vogel
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“Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.” – Muriel Spark
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“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy
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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” Abraham Lincoln
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“The less we know, the longer our explanations.” – Ezra Pound
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“Truth has a power of its own….A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think.” – Howard Zinn
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“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” – Horace Mann
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“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem
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“If art can reveal the truth, art can also lie. An artist can be not only divinely inspired, but diabolically inspired.” – George Bernard Shaw
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