Truth Lies in the Eye of the Beholder

When I read Chapter 10 of God Secretaries, there was something that began to pervade my mind. There was a passage, a phrase which got my attention: "How can one of the most pacific moments in English history be the source of something which in retrospect, looks like one of its greatest ruptures? It is in part, a question of scale and of perspective. From the point of view of the English establishment, the events in the small agricultural communities around Scrooby and Gainsborough, on the borders of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, were no more than a minor irritations at the outer edge of their concerns." (Gods Secretaries pg. 174-175)
After I finished reading this passage I began to think about a very famous phrase that my dad once told me: "Truth lies in they eye of the beholder." I had never really analyzed or thought about what this quote meant. But when I read the passage above, I started to think on how stories and history changes depending on who tells them. And that the point of view of the person or people who are telling a story is not always the only truth. Because people can live the same event, but they each tell it differently because of their point of view. None of the different parts of the story is a lie, the story is just told from different perspectives.
For example in God Secretaries, the English people saw the famous voyage of the Mayflower as a small, not that important moment in English history. They saw that event as kind of "pathetic," they didn't really care about it. While the Americans and the people who were in the Mayflower, saw that moment as kind of tragic. What they saw was that the Separatists suffered very much in England because the English didn't respect their religious believes. And that they really had a hard time. So by reading this I began to see that in every story, there are many truths. This is because in every story there are many witnesses, and each of them see the story with their own point of view, with their own perspective. Truth lies in the eye of the beholder.