Baths Quote by John Updike

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

— Mason Cooley

“What is meant by “reality”? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable—now to be found in a dusty road, now in…

— Virginia Woolf

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of…

— Frank Snepp

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road,…

— Virginia Woolf

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different…

— Karl A. Menninger

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It's not so much facts that interest me,…

— Werner Herzog

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

— Werner Herzog

Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory,…

— Oliver Heaviside

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Facts are the words of God, and we may heap them together endlessly, but they will teach us little or nothing till we place…

— Louis Agassiz