Echoes

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

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations...

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Man is what he believes.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

I have endowed everyone with a temperament of his own, given everyone an idiom of his own; so that what is praise for him is blame for thee, what is honey for him is poison for thee, what is light for him is fire for thee, what is rose for him is thorn for thee, what is good for him is evil for thee, what is beautiful for him is ugly for thee. In the people of Hindustan the idiom of Hindustan is praiseworthy; in the people of Sind, the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy. I do not see the outward and the speech; I see the inward and the state [of feeling]. For the heart is the substance and speech an accident. So, the accident is subservient, the substance is the [real] object. The religion of love stands apart from all religions. For lovers the [only] religion and creed is God.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.