Gene Fowler Quotes

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

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.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

If people believe something is true, then it is even if it isn't.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Reality is mind-made.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

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

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

I think people can believe in anything.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

What a people believes, even if untrue, has the same influence over their lives as if it were true.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Truth is an illusory notion.

People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality.

People are going to believe what they want to believe.

You determine your reality.