Edith Hamilton Quotes

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

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

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Truth is always a delusion.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

I think the reality is important anyway.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

The truth is overrated.