Relativity of Truth Quotes

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

All biography is the interpretation of events through the prism of another life and the mores of another time.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?