Salman Rushdie Quotes

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

There are many levels of truth.

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

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

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

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

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Perception is reality.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.