Chris Crutcher Quotes

A belief may be larger than a fact.

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.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Is not the truth the truth?

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

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

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

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

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

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

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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.

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

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.