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Quotes About Reality

When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.
~ Lian Hearn
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
~ William James
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
~ Anne Ursu
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
~ Helen Keller
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
~ Marie Corelli
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
~ Karl Marx
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
~ Garrison Keillor
I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.
~ Curtis Jackson
Truth happens to an idea
~ William James
The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
~ Hugh Prather
Honesty is not synonymous with truth.
~ Vera Farmiga
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
~ Nicolas Cage
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
~ Ricky Gervais
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.
~ Lydia Polgreen
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.
~ Joseph Joubert
The truth just happens - lies take time to make.
~ Michael Cudlitz
Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
~ Harold Sherman
So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.
~ Chris Murphy
I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.
~ Victoria Aveyard
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
~ John Locke
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
~ Libba Bray