Viv Albertine Quotes

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.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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

Truth is an illusory notion.

the truth is often a mixed message

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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

There are many levels of truth.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

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.

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.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

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.

There is no unique picture of reality.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is overrated.

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

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.

If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

What is my truth can not be your truth.