Erin Morgenstern Quotes

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

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

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

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.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Life is but thought.

I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.

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

I am best viewed from a distance.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

A feeling is not a fact.

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.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

I will not become analytical about my work.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date.

Sometimes you just can't hear yourself. Maybe ears are too close to the mouth.