Christopher Fry Quotes

Reality is a question of perspective.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Perception is reality.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Reality is negotiable.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

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

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.