Quotes About Perspectives

Rather than think critically, we seek out people who share our opinions and who encourage us to ridicule the ideas of those whose convictions and perspectives clash with our own. At many levels, contempt has become a defining characteristic of American politics. It makes us unwilling to listen to what others say—unwilling, in some cases, even to allow them to speak.

we all tend to live in media and information bubbles that reinforce our grievances instead of causing us to look at difficult questions from many sides. Rather than think critically, we seek out people who share our opinions and who encourage us to ridicule ideas of those whose convictions and perspectives clash with our own.

People will always make sides," Garp said, "—of everything.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

Great people discuss eras, average people discuss trends, and small people discuss labels.

Ci sono tanti mondi, quante sono le giornate.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are us.

My family had liberal positions.

Life isn't weird: it's just the people in it.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Cuando los seres humanos conseguimos integrar las cuatro perspectivas, podemos observar tanto aquellas realidades superficiales, y que están en el mundo de la materia, el tiempo y el espacio, como aquellas otras más profundas que están en el mundo de lo espiritual, lo infinito y eterno.

Si las cuatro perspectivas se integraran de manera adecuada, tendríamos acceso a cuatro aspectos diferentes de la misma realidad. El problema es que si las cuatro entran en conflicto, uno solo se relacionará con aquellos aspectos de la realidad que surjan de aquella perspectiva que se convierta en la dominante.

cada ciudad puede ser tantas como amores la recorren.

I have stories to tell. I have no theories, no advice, just stories.

the perspectives offered in the texts may not represent the cultures as wholes (as presupposed by the long-used constructs "Israelite" and/or/versus "Canaanite"). Instead, texts have been taken as representations of the overlapping perspectives of various social factions, strata, and segments: so-called official versus popular; domestic versus public; elite versus peasant; male versus female.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Opinions are like elbows. Everybody's got them, but they only bend one way.

Opinions are like elbows. Everyone's got 'em, but they only bend one way.

What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.

the simple shorthand 'Roman conquest' can obscure a wide range of perspectives, motivations and aspirations on every side of the encounter.