Deb Caletti Quotes

Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

Perception is not always reality.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

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

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

At times truth may not seem probable.