Quotes About Subjectivity

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

There's so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.

Let us emphasize instead that owing to complex, uneven material histories of colonization and the oppression of racialized groups within the United States, the sites of minority or colonized literary production are at different distances from the canonical nationalist project of reconciling constituencies to idealized forms of community and subjectivity.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

Sorry, man. Unless you get a whole lot prettier, which is doubtful, you aren't my type.

Apparently there's a right and wrong answer in chemistry, whereas in psychology, you can say whatever you want as long as you write five pages

The psychology degree comes from the fact that I was a chemistry major and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

If you think I'm handsome, there's obviously nothing wrong with your vision.

One man's poison is another's elixir.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

There are no right or wrong answers. Not when it comes to literature.

No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences

It's funny how family histories seem to differ, depending on whom you ask.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

It might be wishful thinking, but the very name 'jungle' seemed to reflect a wry left-field humour. Ask half a dozen people how the name came about, though, and you'll get six different answers – and they'll all be true.

Staying with statements that are still assertive, but placed in the subjective format can help in debate, conversations and communication. It can open as many doors for authority, while applying humility and honor for another persons views.

what we remember depends upon what we believe—the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . ." ~ MJ Brogan, Sins Not Forgotten