Henri Poincare Quotes

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

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

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

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

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.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Don't confuse facts with reality.