Terry Goodkind Quotes

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

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

Perception and reality are two different things.

Perception is reality.

Seeing is not always believing.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Perception's not reality.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Perception is not always reality.

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.

Everything is but what we think it.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.