Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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

Life is not always what we think it is.

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

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Error is always more busy than truth.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.