Reggie Watts Quotes

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

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

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.