Quotes About Perspective

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

I give opinions, not advice.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

With any huge change, you need to expect and accept that people will have their own opinions and feel the need to express them.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.  To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.