Quotes About Subjectivity

We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

It didn't matter that it wouldn't last. Beauty never did.

There is no true event only a series of occurrences open to interpretation. -Mosley-

Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.

the author's judgment is always present, always evident to anyone who knows how to look for it. Whether its particular forms are harmful or serviceable is always a complex question, a question that cannot be settled by any easy reference to abstract rules. As we begin now to deal with this question, we must never forget that though the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear.

Nothing is more important than anything else. The child collecting seashells is not doing something more right or wrong than the President of General Motors making a major corporate decision. They are different. Nothing more!

Maybe it was how you looked at it. Maybe there were things I saw as ugly that other people thought were beautiful.

Quizás todo se trata de la forma en que lo miras. Tal vez hubo cosas que yo veía como feas y otras personas encontraban hermosas.

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

And, as you know, opinions are like assholes---everybody has one.)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful.

The answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right-wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are a complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful.

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

One man's quiet is another man's din.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

Some jokes are less agreeable than others

Iemand die van iemand anders houdt, zegt altijd dat dat komt doordat die ander zo mooi is, op een of andere manier, van buiten of van binnen, of allebei, - terwijl andere mensen daar vaak niets van zien, en meestal is het ook niet zo. Maar wie altijd mooi is, is degene die liefheeft, want hij heeft lief en wordt daardoor bestraald door dat licht.

You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.