Viewpoints Quotes

• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

  Ralph Marston

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Creativity

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Peace, Motivation

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.

  Steve de Shazer

  Change, Views, Perspective

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• Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

  Richard Rohr

  Views

  Richard Rohr (2014). “A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer”, p.34, Paulist Press

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

  Denis Diderot

  Acceptance, Perspective, Force

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe : The Key to a Whole New World of Enlightenment and Enrichment". Book by Matthew M Radmanesh, 2006.

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• Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

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• Yes, we have different viewpoints represented among us," she continued. "Yes, we have a displacer in our number, and a half giant, and a seedman who publicly disgraced us." "She's talking about you," Drake muttered to Nollin, loud enough to draw a laugh. "No, Drake, I'm talking about you," Farfalee corrected.

  Brandon Mull

  Talking, Numbers, Laughing

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.754, Simon and Schuster

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• From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Important, Ordinary

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• Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Non Believer, Humans

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.161, Shambhala Publications

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• The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Views, History, Church

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• What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational Sports

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• Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Positive, Blessing

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• The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

  Jim Hightower

  People, Political, Together

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• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Thinking, Feelings, Desire

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Believe

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 2), 2002.

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• I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

  Samuel West

  Children, Growing Up, Hate

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• Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Eye, Men, Intellectual

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• 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.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Power, Underprivileged, Value Systems

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• people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

  John Hancock

  Respect, Honesty, Men

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• Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Growing Up, Insults You

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• 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...

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Matter

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• In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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