Quotes About Subjectivity

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

People are entitled to their opinion. I respect them, but it doesn't mean they're right.

Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

Kuru kafa resmi, hemen hemen bir ç?plak kad?n kadar ilginçtir.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

Your own toothache always hurts more than someone else's broken leg.

A basic difference in judgment arises from the existence of two distinct and sharply contrasting ways of coming to conclusions. One way is by the use of thinking, that is, by a logical process, aimed at an impersonal finding. The other is by feeling, that is, by appreciation—equally reasonable in its fashion—bestowing on things a personal, subjective value.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow." - from "The Adventure of a Photographer

the planet, as with a person of difficult character. (Unless the difficulty of character is all on Mr. Palomar's side: he tries in vain to escape subjectivity by taking refuge among the celestial bodies.)

They have known her since she was a girl, they know everything there is to know about her, some of them may have been involved with her, now water under the bridge, over and done with; in other words, there is a veil of other images that settles on her image and blurs it, a weight of memories that keep me from seeing her as a person seen for the first time, other people's memories suspended like the smoke under the lamps.

Pare che ricordare non sia una vera azione. Il ricordo lo si subisce immobile. Chi ricorda e chi è ricordato s'immobilizzano.

Every one is right in there mind.

Like I said, one man's pornography is another man's brass reading lamp with the articulated adjustable arm and three-way light bulb.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a point when I would have liked to, but apparently that's just because I'm a bitch.

There is not a right and a wrong answer to every question.

There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The story itself exists in the reader's mind and nowhere else. And it is different for each reader, because no two people have the same experience, background, training, interests, and so on.