Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

There are many levels of truth.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

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

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

The color of truth is gray.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?