T. D. Jakes Quotes

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

Be skeptical, but not as a social position, not claiming to be so intelligent that you cannot believe what other people say. It's not about being right and making everybody else wrong. No, you are skeptical because you know without a doubt that everybody lives in their own story, and in their story they have their own truth. But it's only truth in their mind, just as your truth is only truth in your mind, and nobody else's.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

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

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

The same facts impress us differently.

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.