Paul Watson Quotes

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

Reality is negotiable.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

"Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anybody else." Don't believe me, because what I say is only truth for me. Don't believe yourself, because most of the time what you tell yourself is only truth for you - especially when you tell yourself that you're not good enough, you're not intelligent enough, you're not beautiful enough - when you reject yourself before anybody else can reject you. And don't believe anybody else, because what they say is only truth for them.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

We see what we want to believe.

You can have your beliefs, but if you're not devout, you can't quite believe that something which grows out of a story, a book or a piece of literature can rise to dominate and make entire nations go to war with each other. I think that's endlessly fascinating, and it's a human construct. It's something that's constructed to occupy the mind and occupy society, and some people would say to control society.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.