Stephen Hawking Quotes

There is no truth. There is only perception.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

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

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

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

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

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.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

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

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.