Bertrand Russell Quotes

Truth is only a question of point of view.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Life's all about perceptions.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

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.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Truth is a tendency.

The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge.

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

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Pure truth is for God alone.

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

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.