Patricia Briggs Quotes

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

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.

Reality: What a concept!

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

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.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.