Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

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

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

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

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

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

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.