Best reality & truth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.”

Reality Truth Creative Roots Labels Propaganda Hypocrisy Nurture Slogans Creative Work

Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Source: The Radical King

“My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.”

Ifs May Reality Truth Lying Longing Literal Deviation

Book:Van Gogh and his art

Source: Van Gogh and his art

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .”

Reality Truth Becoming Obvious Being True Nothingness Enigmatic

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.”

“The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.”

Ifs May Problem Reality Truth Able Loss Opinion Prove Speech Solve Mortals Unlikely Candor

Author:Alexander Haig

“As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.”

Reality Truth Fiction Fantasy Events Truth Is Stranger Legends Stranger Than Fiction

Author:Brock Yates

“Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.”

Littles Two Reality Truth Connections

Book:Spokesmen for God: The Great Teachers of the Old Testament

Source: Spokesmen for God: The Great Teachers of the Old Testament

“The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.”

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

“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.”

May Reason Reality Truth Running Lying Order Reading Ability Fiction Honesty Truth Is Anger Stranger Rational Thread Irrational Believable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”

Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith

“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.”

Ifs Thinking Way Reality Truth Universe Opinion Feet Wall Fit Stones Gaps Thinker Boots Coats Fitting

Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.”

Ifs Giving Mean Real Enough Reality Truth Law Science Certain Process Opinion Objects Solutions Conception Followers Investigation Realism Truth And Reality

Book:Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

Source: Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays

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