Quotes About Subjectivity

As we know, human memory is notoriously unreliable when it comes to recalling facts. But when it comes to matters of the psyche, the way we feel about what happened can be as significant as the facts of the case.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

It's weird how we do that, you know, just fill in the blanks with our own answer key. -- I think we create our own reality, our own truths. If we believe it to be so, then it is so.

Like a bowl of roses, a poem should not have to be explained.

To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

The anthropologist cannot always leave his own shadow out of the picture he draws.

You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

And of course, if there's one thing we feel we can take as truth in these books it's Katniss and her narrative. But we should ask ourselves whether even this should be above suspicion. Like all first-person narrators, Katniss is her own editor with her own biases: she chooses how to present herself and those around her. Katniss has a stake in the story she's telling and what that stake is changes how she portrays the events and her emotional reaction to them.

How can it be that there is no distinction between motion and rest? The key is to realize that whether a body is moving or not has no absolute meaning. Motion is defined only with respect to an observer, who can be moving or not. If you are moving past me at a steady rate, then the cup of coffee I perceive to be at rest on my table is moving with respect to you.

Quantum mechanics has to be expanded, to allow for many different descriptions, depending on who the observer is.

It's lovely. I hate it.

What do you mean "Ewww"? How is my tuna breath worse than peanut butter?

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

It is remarkable that different people will have different thoughts when they look at the same thing.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. Some people say that a sunrise is a miracle, because it is somewhat mysterious and often very beautiful, but other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning.

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.

War spells out my philosophy of "No right or wrong"— just "Your right, my wrong"—everything is subjective.

Shakespeare's sonnets give us no access to his personal history.

nobody really knows how anybody else feels - you may think you are feeling as a woman, or as a man, but you may simply be feeling as yourself.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Evil to some is always good to others

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;