Viewpoints Quotes - Page 2

• I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Views, Opposites, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", 2005.

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• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sheep, Agreement, Civil War

  Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 Apr. 1864

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• 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.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Events, Shifting

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.332, Bantam

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• Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

  Robert Sheckley

  Originality, Concepts

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “The Robot Who Looked Like Me: Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

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

  Frederic Bastiat

  Race, Political, Politics

  Frederic Bastiat (2001). “Economic Fallacies”, p.61, Simon Publications LLC

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

  Dale Carnegie

  People, Sympathetic, Persons

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.142, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Art, Nature, Pain

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.10, Macmillan

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• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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

  Bobby Jindal

  Crowds, Politically Correct, Disagree

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

  Edward Weston

  Hate, Liars, Support

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Men, Compassion

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• Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central bank governors are linked to financial communities in their countries, so they push policies that reflect the viewpoints and interests of the financial community and barely hear the voices of those who are the first victims of dictated policies.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Voice, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people's lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

  Chris Killip

  Photography, Real, Distance

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Character, Moral High Ground, Play

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• One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

  "The Universe in a Nutshell". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2001.

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• The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

  Douglas Huebler

  Photography, Numbers, Doubt

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• The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

  Jacques Chirac

  Believe, Russia, Risk

  "Debates of the Senate". www.parl.gc.ca. February, 8, 2001.

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• When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

  Harry S. Truman

  Trying, Nine, Fellows

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• The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Ideas, People, World

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Feelings, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

  Kabir Bedi

  Spiritual, Country, Land

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Looks, Problem, Figures

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• The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.

  John Sparkman

  Rights, Trouble, Should

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• We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.

  J. I. Packer

  Bible, Biblical, Mind

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