Quotes About Subjectivity

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.