Albert Pike Quotes

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

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

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

No one individual can tell the truth.

I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.