Viewpoints Quotes

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts.

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

The next time someone asks for your opinion, and you know it’s contrary to that person’s viewpoint, take the risk of putting your perspective on the table rather than taking the path of least resistance by agreeing or saying you have no opinion.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i am very proud to be a Muslim

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.