Bill Cosby Quotes

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

The truth is always multiplex.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.