Quotes About Views

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

It is impossible to understand regime fall and survival in Latin America without examining changing normative views about democracy and dictatorship.

My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get.

a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

When our minds are conditioned by prejudice or paralyzed by traditional views, we may face a truth in Scripture again and again without its ever touching us. Our spiritual inhibition concerning that truth permits us to see, but not to perceive. The truth lies dormant within, mentally apprehended but not spiritually applied.

excluded from this collection of classic Solariana, whose only connection with the field was that for a lengthy period they researched public opinion, collecting the most ordinary views, the attitudes of non-specialists, and in this way demonstrated the astonishingly close relationship between changes in such views and processes simultaneously taking place among the ranks of scholars.

Within the last hundred years the teachings of the Buddha have confirmed the views of theosophists, fascists, environmentalists, and quantum physicists alike.

But desperation easily turns into fanaticism. People adopt inflexible views as a comforting defense mechanism when they find themselves threatened and overwhelmed by forces they cannot control.

skilled arguers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views.

skilled arguers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views."50

Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience's views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.

Hubert Lutz, had similar views about his upbringing in Cologne: "It was the most exciting time in our lives . . . it was a normal way of life for me.

Many of the non-Jewish respondents were certainly not of the opinion that the Third Reich had been imposed upon them against their will. Indeed, many shared the views of Rolf Heberer of Freithal who said that he had been "ecstatic" when Hitler came to power and that "for sixty million Germans, that was what the people really wanted.

We have observed two common yet flawed views that unfortunately impact a church's likelihood to make disciples that are transformed: equating information with discipleship and viewing discipleship merely as behavioral modification. Discipleship is much more than information and much deeper than behavioral modification.

It was a poem of volume and geometry without humanity—a little bit of Swiss megalomania come to the North. As Bev says, I have views about the International Style.

I emphasized that policy decisions should be based on open-minded discussion, not the views of only one individual.

we were considering a wide range of views.

Obama seemed more interested in my views than McCain was.

it allows stock prices to reflect a full range of views.

I didn't always agree with Sheila's views, but I had to admire her political talent.

There was a refreshing purity to their views, which seemed often unaffected by real-world complexities. The

since Hank would be the one persuading Congress to act, his views deserved some deference.

Speakers are expected to make clear that they are expressing their own views and not those of the Committee as a whole.

The callers seemed to believe that voting in opposition to their personal views for political reasons was perfectly natural.