Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

My perspective will create my perception

There are many levels of truth.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Everything is but what we think it.

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

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

I think perception is important.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

All experience is subjective.

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

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

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