Ransom Riggs Quotes

There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

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

I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

My perspective will create my perception

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

The world is as you are.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.