Terry Pratchett Quotes

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Everything is but what we think it.

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

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

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

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

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

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

There are many levels of truth.

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

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

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

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Perception's not reality.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.