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Quotes About Reality

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
~ Marilyn Manson
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~ Andrei Platonov
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.
~ David Sedaris
Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
~ Jean Rhys
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The only atheism is the denial of truth.
~ Arthur Lynch
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
~ Gore Vidal
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.
~ Stephen Colbert
Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
~ Jacques Maritain
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.
~ James Cameron
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
~ Rineke Dijkstra
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
~ Edward Albee
One must not mistake majority for truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
~ Bob Kane
Whatever you say about something, it is not.
~ Alfred Korzybski
There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.
~ Kevin Warwick
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
~ Albert Einstein
Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?
~ Edward Abbey