Relative Truth Quotes

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

What darkness to you is light to me

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

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

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

I reject the idea that journalists are messengers of the truth. It’s arrogant. I think journalism is a search for the little relative truths that at best keep us relatively sane.

He is not to them what he is to me.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.