What's the difference between Truth and Reality?

Answer 1

Truth is what it takes to see what is really around you. However, your reality is what you make of it. And even though we will never know the truth and you will never see reality as others see it .. some of us do the best we can with the truth about reality ..kr

Answer 2

Truth is the idea on paper that is correct. Reality is what actually happens in the real world.

For example, if you were to drop a ball from a height of 6 ft science tells us it would bounce and come up 3 ft. Reality shows that variables exist. By factoring in air resistance, the boucyness of the ball, etc. it might not bounce that high.

Answer 3

Truth is proven fact while reality is something you believe to be true but first must do a little research to find out if its true or not . Usually truth is great but, often reality slaps you in the face because its not the things you want to believe top be true.

Answer 4

Reality and truth SHOULD be the same. However, because some philosophers have convinced a lot of people that
truth is relative, reality becomes .... foggy.

Answer 5

the difference is that reality is what is right in front of us.what we can see taste touch hear and feel. truth is a belief and what some believe to be the truth may not be the same for another.

Answer 6

Reality is what is.

Truth is an accurate description of what is.

Consider the quote: "The absolute truth is almost impossible to express, no ball bearing is absolutely round, no desert absolutely dry."

Answer 7

Reality may not be manifesting Truth.

Answer 8

If you're talking dictionary definitions, they are the same:
"Truth is agreement with fact or reality." That said, I think you might be referring to the word "truth" as an individual's subjective view of reality, e.g. a religious person being convinced he knows the "Truth", even though his truth varies from other peoples.

Your question touches on the notion of what is “truth" or for that matter "reality”? We tend to view reality as an objective, unchanging entity, not open to interpretation, but the truth is much different. My view of reality and your view might be quite different. The reason is we each bring to the table a unique set of experiences and preconceptions that unintentionally filter what we consider objective reality. Most people falsely assume that they are in touch with reality in its true form, what they don’t realize is that the very process of interpreting reality alters it in some way.

An example of this is the story of the blind men and the elephant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blind_men_a...

In the story a group of blind men (or men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it's like. Each man describes a completely different creature, as one touches the tail, another touches the trunk, another touches the ears, etc. Each touches only one body part. "They then compare notes on what they felt, and learn they are in complete disagreement. The story is used to indicate that reality may be viewed differently depending upon one's perspective, showing how absolute truths may be relative", and how deceptive our view of "reality" can be.

Each person paints their picture of reality with a brush dipped in the pigments of the past.
— Jerry Andrus (Skeptical Inquirer, March/April ’95, p.7)

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"All the time we are aware of millions of things around us--these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road--aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world."
— Robert Pirsig, (Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance; p.69)

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are
— Old Talmudic saying

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.
— The movie: “Adaptations”

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
— Jon Wynne-Tyson

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
— Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble across a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.
— Walter Lippman, (1929)

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James

“I wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. . . It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I'm looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling. I think what needs to be done is that we need to be trained to look for quality inside each of us, instead of looking towards society to decide what is good in our lives and what is not. Until this happens, we shall never know happiness.
— Robert Pirsig (Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, p. 5.)

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
— Edward R Murrow

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein

We must train ourselves not to see the world only through our own eyes.
— Michael Levine

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein

Enlightenment is illusion-free reality.
— Buddha, [Siddhartha Gautama] (?563-?483 B.C.E.)

For a more indepth discussion of truth and reality, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality

Answer 9

Truth is absolute and reality is not....

Answer 10

Reality is what is real, truth is what we say is real.