Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view."
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Point Of View
96 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Vidal Sassoon
Hairdresser
"From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth."
Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."
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"As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view."
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"If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums."
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"If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view."
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"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
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"From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit."
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"I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's."
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"Examine other points of view as if they were your own."
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"Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach."
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"One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told."
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"Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness."
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"All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down."
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"Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . ."
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"There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled."
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"I see people as they really are from a pure point of view."
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"You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth."
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"We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it."
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"We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view."
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"I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam."
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"Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about."
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"Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me."
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