Bliss Carman Quotes

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

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

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

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

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

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life's all about perceptions.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

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

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.