Quotes About Viewpoint

I am not proposing to ask you to see it from my point of view. You cannot, no matter how willing you are to try. No two people ever see life from the same angle. There is a law which decrees that two objects may not occupy the same space at the same time - result: two people cannot see things from the same point of view, and the slightest difference in angle changes the thing seen.

Everyone is right in his/her point of view but not necessarily on RIGHT

there is no such thing as a god's-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god's-eye view) available to human beings, a point of view which is no human's point of view.

For more than two thousand years, the only people recopying were nuns in convents. I don't think it's at all a stretch to suggest that they picked works to copy that supported their viewpoint and just let the rest molder into flakes of parchment. I mean, why would they re-copy works that said men used to be stronger and women weaker? That would be heresy, and they'd be damned for it.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Photography shows us how the imbecile views the world.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth.

Foy was no Tree of Knowledge, at most he was a Bush of Opinion

If you can imagine an alternative world, then you can see things through someone else's eyes, even if their sense of reality doesn't match your own. This makes possible perspective-taking, empathy, and much else.

Good and evil, however, are views taken from a certain given standpoint, and from this standpoint good and evil are features forming a contrast, but as such they are always actualities; neither the one nor the other

Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.

How to tell a story? First find a point of view.

One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

Perspective. Everything was about perspective. One man's darkness was another man's daylight. How come so many people did not realize that?