George Meredith Quotes

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

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

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

There are many levels of truth.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life's all about perceptions.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

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.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

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.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

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

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.