Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Facts do not speak.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Circumstantial evidence … that wonderful fabric which is built out of straws collected at every point of the compass, and which is yet strong enough to hang a man.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.