Morgan Neville Quotes

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.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

“There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.

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.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

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.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

No one individual can tell the truth.

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

Subjectivity is objective.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There are many levels of truth.