Quotes About Reality

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

When awareness believes what it knows is true, the truth of what awareness really is, moves. That movement is love.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth