Zadie Smith Quotes

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.

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

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

One man’s oddball is another man’s square.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

Everyone's life experience is different.

In the end, everybody's life's different. Some things fit certain ways for people, and it's right, and maybe it isn't for others.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Any two people have different ideas of what is important.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

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

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

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.

There's no common taste in this world.