Aldous Huxley Quotes

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

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.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

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

Don't face the facts.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

No authority is higher than reality.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.