Doug Marlette Quotes

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Facts do not constitute truth.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

The truth is more important than the facts

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

Facts are often complicated.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

There are many levels of truth.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The color of truth is gray.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.