Truth

• "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." -- Albert Einstein
• "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- A. Schopenhauer
• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. -- Mark Twain
• "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."  -- Mahatma Gandhi
• "Truth exists; only lies are invented." -- Horatio Bonar

Reality

• "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick
• "Few people have the imagination for reality." --  Goethe
• "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."  --John Lennon
• "If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both." -- Bodhidharma
• "The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze." -- Buddha