Carrie Vaughn Quotes

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Perception and reality are two different things.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

People think that they see, but they don't.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.