Viewpoints quotes
85 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others."
"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint."
"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
"Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint."
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"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."
"I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data."
"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."
"You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them."
"Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same."
"The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again."
"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing."
"From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen."
"The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it."
