Bill Moyers Quotes

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

People are always going to say what they want to say and believe what they want to believe, but that's the bottom line.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

There are many levels of truth.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.