Patrick White Quotes

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

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Truth is always a delusion.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

The truth is overrated.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Truth is an illusory notion.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Facts do not constitute truth.