Quotes About Perspectives

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

If you get any two evangelicals together, you will have at least three opinions! I

Gay men don't have much in common with lesbians.

On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd - all these different names - and it was just really cool to be able to talk to those people about things that weren't everyday life for me, which is football.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently.