Seth Godin Quotes

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

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.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

Perception is reality.

The problem is that perception is reality.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

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

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

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

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

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

Everyone thinks they're the hero in their own story.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.