Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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

No two people see things the same way.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Everyone's life experience is different.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

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

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 have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

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

The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

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.

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

One man's constant is another man's variable.

There's no common taste in this world.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I just can't help but see things differently.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.