illusory truth Quotes

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.