D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

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

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

"Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anybody else." Don't believe me, because what I say is only truth for me. Don't believe yourself, because most of the time what you tell yourself is only truth for you - especially when you tell yourself that you're not good enough, you're not intelligent enough, you're not beautiful enough - when you reject yourself before anybody else can reject you. And don't believe anybody else, because what they say is only truth for them.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

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, [...}

Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

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