Pat Murphy Quotes

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

Truth is only a question of point of view.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

Now, none of this is to say that the truth isn’t important. The truth obviously exists. It’s at the core—or the search for the truth—is at the core of some of our greatest human achievements. It can animate and inspire us to do, learn and create great things. But I think in our messy human hearts, we also know that the truth is something of a fickle mistress and that the beauty of the truth is often in the struggle. It’s the reason that we have so many sublime chronicles of the human experience, because we have so many different truths to be explored…. For many of us, truth is what we make when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world. Each of us has our own truth and it’s probably a good one.

Perception is reality.

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

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.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

No one individual can tell the truth.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

Reality is a question of perspective.

Subjectivity is objective.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.