Alison Jackson Quotes

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Perception's not reality.

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truth is always a delusion.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The truth is overrated.

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

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.