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Quotes About Reality

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
~ Richard P. Feynman
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".
~ Diogenes
There is no truth. Only points of view.
~ Edith Sitwell
we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth
~ Tite Kubo
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
~ John Green
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
~ Josef Pieper
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
~ Errol Morris
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
~ Henri Matisse
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
~ Gautama Buddha
If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
~ Richard Bach
Stereotypes have their roots in truth.
~ Emma Walton Hamilton
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
~ Joseph Conrad
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
~ Patrick White, Voss
We live in a real world. Come back to it.
~ Natalie Portman
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
~ Victor Pelevin
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
~ George Carlin
Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.
~ Leslie Nielsen
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
~ Peter Kreeft
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
~ William Saroyan
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
~ William S. Burroughs
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
~ Michael Haneke