Gabriel Byrne Quotes

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Everyone feels entitled to their own facts.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

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