Quotes About Viewpoint

Five learning skills, or "habits of mind," were at the core of her school, and each was matched up with a corresponding question: Evidence: How do we know what's true or false? What evidence counts? Viewpoint: How might this look if we stepped into other shoes, or looked at it from a different direction? Connection: Is there a pattern? Have we seen something like this before? Conjecture: What if it were different? Relevance: Why does this matter?

In the competition with the inside view, the outside view doesn't stand a chance.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?

When minority or outcast characters exist in a story solely to teach lessons to members of the majority, it's just one more way of seeing everything from the majority point of view.

T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

can't see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she'd thought it out with both hands for a fortnight. She

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without proper training.

One can't argue with a point of view.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

Io non sono brava come voi, Monsieur Poirot. Metà delle cose che mi avete detto mi sembravano fatti sconclusionati e senza senso. Anche a me erano venute delle idee, ma da un angolo completamente diverso..." "Ah, ma è sempre così", disse Poirot senza scomporsi. "Uno specchio mostra a tutti la stessa verità, ma ognuno la vede da angoli diversi, a seconda della posizione che ha rispetto a esso.

Ah, but that is always so," said Poirot quietly. "A mirror shows the truth, but everyone stands in a different place for looking into the mirror.

A madman is as logical and reasoned in his actions as a sane man—given his peculiar biased point of view.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

We are all viewing the world through our own private lenses.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

I think I approach things with an outsider's perspective.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.