Colin Firth Quotes

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

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.

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

He is not to them what he is to me.

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.