“There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.”

— Jodi Picoult , book The Pact

Source: The Pact

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Author 1966

Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer

Foreword
Tynan Right and Left (1967)

“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

The Pathology of Power (1987), pg. 207).
Context: Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

“As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.”

John Ralston Saul (1947) Canadian author and essayist

Reflections of a Siamese Twin (1997)

“Of what’s to come the wise perceive
things about to happen.”

Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet

But the Wise Perceive Things about to Happen http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=128&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
Context: Of what’s to come the wise perceive
things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study
their hearing’s troubled: the hidden sound
of things approaching reaches them,
and they listen reverently, while in the street outside
the people hear nothing whatsoever.