Tracey Emin Quotes

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

There are many levels of truth.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

The color of truth is gray.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

Truth is always a delusion.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

There are no indisputable truths.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.