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Quotes About Reality

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
~ Adyashanti
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
~ Lord Byron
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
~ Joe Walsh
Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.
~ Multatuli
Everything passes, only truth remains.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.
~ Rumi
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
~ Bill Hybels
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.
~ Thomas Hirschhorn
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
~ Willard F. Libby
Facts are the enemy of truth.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
~ Donna Tartt
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
~ Sigmund Freud
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
~ Mark Driscoll
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
~ Calvin S. Hall
To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
Truth and news are not the same thing.
~ Katharine Graham
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
~ Roy Basler
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
~ Brennan Manning
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.
~ Democritus