Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

There are many levels of truth.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

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

Truth happens to an idea

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.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

Man is the measure of all things.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.