Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

If you argue against reality you will suffer.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

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.