Subjective Truth Quotes

Perception is reality.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

There is properly no history; only biography.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.