Virginia Woolf Quotes

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

The same facts impress us differently.

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

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

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

Any two people have different ideas of what is important.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.

Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

And allow the world as others choose to see it, exist as well.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.