Quotes About Reality

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, "We Bring Good Things to Life," doesn't tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts

I had retreated to reporting because I doubted the reality of my inner voice

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Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.

Don't fear the truth, it isn't hard. Don't embrace falsehood, it is hard.

Even those who love falsity will swear that they hate falsity. Because they believe falsity is the truth. So love the truth.

Falsity feels great until you meet the truth.

Falsity is the most powerful thing on earth. Truth is the most valuable thing in the world.

The best advice there is, Shun falsity, embrace the truth.

The fundamental lessons of life are taught in the class of truth.

The hardness of truth is nothing compared to hardness as a result of falsehood.

The most dangerous thing is, in believing falsity is truth, treating it as such.

The nature of things has never been a problem, our perceived nature of them and perception of their nature has always been.

The problem is that we tend to forget that lies are always presented as the truth, not that people hate the truth.

The truth is the most underrated thing on earth, falsity the most overrated. Albeit indirectly.

The world suffers a lot because of false truths.

There is nothing as despicable as a lie that has reached the apex therein as to be universally viewed as the truth.

We go hungry because we keep expecting fruit from barren lands.

It was as if, from 1967 on, for several years, two different tribes of Americans experienced the same outward events but experienced them as two quite different realities.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.