Tim Ferriss Quotes

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

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

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

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

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.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

Perception is reality.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

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.

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

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Truth is whatever people will believe.