Mike Mills Quotes

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

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

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

History is about who tells it.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.