James Frey Quotes

Everything is self-evident.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

Never confuse wishes with facts.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

I believe in things that have proof.

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.