William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

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

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

By seeing differently, we do differently

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

Reality is a question of perspective.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.