Quotes About Truth

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

We need experience to release what matters.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

One of the things that I have always been interested in is the actual experience of people in their lives as opposed to what we think their experience should be.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.