Quotes About Perspectives

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

The false prophets belonged to the socially and religiously acceptable institution of "professional" prophets who responded to the needs of their time. They operated from within the limited perspectives of their contemporaries: Realpolitik and vox populi.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.

if one accepts Jean Piaget's famous definition of mature intelligence as the ability to coordinate between multiple perspectives (or possible perspectives) one can see, here, precisely how bureaucratic power, at the moment it turns to violence, becomes literally a form of infantile stupidity.

There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

People who benefit from writing express more optimism, acknowledge negative events, are constructing a meaningful story of their experience, and have the ability to change perspectives as they write.