Sophie Swetchine Quotes

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Evil is that which one believes of others.

Everyone has an opinion.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

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

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

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

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

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'