Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

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

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

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

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

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.