Oscar Wilde Quotes

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

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.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

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 is only a question of point of view.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.