Ken Wilber Quotes

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

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.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

There are many levels of truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is an illusory notion.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

the truth is often a mixed message

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

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

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.