Quotes About Perception

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.