Nicole Kidman Quotes

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

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.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Perception is reality.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.