Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

The word relationship is beautiful. The original meaning of the root from which the word to relate comes is exactly the same as to respond. Relationship comes from that word respond. If you have any image of your wife or husband, you cannot respond, and hence relate, to the truth of the person. And we all go on carrying images.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Observe things as they are and don't pay attention to other people.

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

I just do little jokes all the time and people think I'm serious. I know exactly who Gordon Ramsay is, I know exactly who Gordon Brown is... I just say jokes but they think I'm serious which I think is funny and I think I kind of play up the image sometimes because - whatever - it's just entertainment.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.