Quotes About Viewpoint

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.

il n'y a pas de grandes ou de petites choses, il n'y a que de grandes ou petites facons de les considérer.

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

You see, when you look at events in history there is a two-way perspective. Forwards and back. But at the time everything is one way.

The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

From above, start with the privileged view.

Thus the highest point of truth is still only perspective.

If objects must never show me more than one of their sides, then this is because I myself am in a certain place from which I can see them, but which I cannot see.

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

Things you see from there are not what you see from here.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

Because the evangelical left—like most human beings—is highly lacking in empathy and unable to perceive other points of view, its members tend to equate their perspective with universally perceived truth.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus