Echoes

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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

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...

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

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

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

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

Man is what he believes.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

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.

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

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.

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

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

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.