Quotes About Reality

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.

Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

The truth is for suckers, Johnny Boy!