Richard Dawkins Quotes

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

And that’s the way it is

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

But facts are facts and flinch not.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.