Errol Morris Quotes

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

That which is cannot be true.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

A hair divides what is false and true.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.