William Butler Yeats Quotes

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life's all about perceptions.

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

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

Everything is but what we think it.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.