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Quotes About Reality

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
~ William James
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
~ Agatha Christie
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
~ Adam Phillips, On Balance
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
~ Publilius Syrus
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
~ William Osler
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
~ Richard Dawkins
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
~ Joseph Joubert
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
~ Arthur Eddington
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
~ Loretta Lynn
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
~ Maria Montessori
Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.
~ Jean Gebser
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
~ Nikolai Gogol
the truth is often a mixed message
~ Dan Savage
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
~ Edward Abbey
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
~ Jodi Picoult
Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.
~ Farley Mowat
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
~ Farley Mowat
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury