James Russell Lowell Quotes

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

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

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

He is not to them what he is to me.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Perception is reality.

There are many levels of truth.

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

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

The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

The truth is what you say it is, and that’s not a good place to be.