Walter Lippmann Quotes

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.