Quotes About Reality

The more nearly a man knows himself for what he is, the nearer he approaches wisdom. The more his imagination about himself diverges from what he actually is, the madder he becomes. –Rodney Collin

There is no way to tell which version of a lie is the truth.

Being a parent is a monumental thing. You shape reality for another person. You cannot be an illusion. You cannot be paralyzed by the fear that you are an illusion. If you have done a bad job, or no job at all, what remains of you is proof that the world is an unfeeling place. If you have done a good job, what remains is the part of you that was magical.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

They exist in some Platonic realm, along with abstract concepts like truth and justice.

Space and time would no longer make sense below these scales. They're the end of the line.

If real numbers are not real, why do mathematicians love them so much?

Yet somehow, if the translation from reality into symbols is done artfully enough, the logic of calculus can use one real-world truth to generate another. Truth in, truth out.

o There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We don't like feeling that events are out of control, so we put reality into an order that makes sense to us.

13. The more distorted our sense of reality, the more certain we will be that what we believe is accurate. 14. The more insistent a person is about the accuracy of his or her observations, the more likely it is that his or her sense of reality is distorted.

Information provides the tools with which we think and understand reality. Without accurate, up-to-date information, we can easily be manipulated and controlled.

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.

Although the past really happened—in the same way that the world is indeed out there—history is something we make.

Reality, truth, and knowledge are matters about which there is less consensus than one might hope.

W]e can discover the world, but we decide upon the truth.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

Only perspective brings truth into focus. Where you stand when you look at the facts will determine how they appear.

our minds can do strange things, can convince us of things that aren't real. Sometimes we see things that aren't really there, sometimes we don't see things that are. We're all experts at fictionalizing the truth.

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.