Paulo Freire Quotes

Subjectivity is objective.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

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

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

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

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Truth happens to an idea

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.