Maya Angelou Quotes

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

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.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

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

I seek the truth.