Wendell Phillips Quotes

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

Facts do not speak.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

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

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.