Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

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

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.

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

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

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

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

What you see from here is not what you see from there.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

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.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it