"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.”
There are two sides to every story we hear. Newscasters are supposed to report the truth, but how many times have we learned later that facts had been embellished to make the story more exciting. Sometimes fiction can be more exciting to people than the truth. We live in a world where you must question the things you hear.
Seeing: sometimes people believe so strongly about something they think what they see is the truth. It's kind of like a good magician. We can often be so biased to see what we WANT to see. Life experiences also give people different perspectives on how they view things. For example, in the recently circulated picture of a striped dress, some saw white and gold and others saw black and blue. Why is that?
Some things we hear our facts. For example, 2+2 is 4. But there are some things we take as a fact because someone has spent a great amount of time researching or convincing a majority to see it the way they do, which then makes the fact based on popular opinion.
Not everything we hear is a fact, not everything we see is a truth; it’s an exaggeration. Absolute words like everything, nothing, always, never are usually incorrect because there is typically at least a small percent of the time that something can or can't happen. So it would be better to use a qualifier, like "most everything”.
To me both statements are similar. What we are hearing is someone's interpretation of what is real to that individual, based on what they believe or know. What we see is based on how we compare what we are seeing to what we have seen or experienced before.
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