Nancy Gibbs Quotes

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.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

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

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

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

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

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.'

Perception is not always reality.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

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

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.