Yann Martel Quotes

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Truth is independent of facts always.

The truth is always multiplex.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is for the minority.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

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.

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

The truth is what you say it is, and that’s not a good place to be.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

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

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Reality is negotiable.