Leo Rosten Quotes

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

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

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Life's all about perceptions.

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

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

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

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

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

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

Everything is but what we think it.

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.