Quotes About Subjectivity

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

Some of you guys are going to boo, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't like dogs.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and bored with it. Then I thought, actually, how does it feel to be photographed? That's when I started to photograph myself. That was an incredibly important moment, and it opened up my work tremendously.

Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I give possibility for people to talk. No need for me to tell people what to think - even when I make a film like 'S-21.' It's only one point of view. It's still a film; it's not a tribunal.

Truth is only what we like to hear....

Truth, at times is just an accepted opinion

What if one thing resonates with everybody, but it's not the same for anybody?

It's necessary to admit that there's no universal truth about right and wrong when the subjects of your writings come rightly from your heart.

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.

No two person, ever read the same book.

There is no truth beyond perception. How you look at things is the truth for you.

The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.

They say truth will set you free, it all depends whose truth we are talking about... yours or mine.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.

Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?

For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.