Errol Morris Quotes

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

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

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Perception is reality.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

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.

Don't confuse facts with reality.