Quotes About Truth

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.