Louise Erdrich Quotes

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

The truth is overrated.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Double Spectacles

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

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

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

...[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.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is created, not discover!

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

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.