Quotes About Reality

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Is not the truth the truth?

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.