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Letter "P" » points of view
«I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
conflicting, directly, entertain, entertains, felt, intelligence, number, points, points of view, reflected, simultaneously, topic, view
«Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.»
«The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough»
«A house full of people is a house full of different points of view»
«Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
assumes, continuing, dialogue, dialogues, points, points of view
«Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Travel
| Keywords:
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«I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.»
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adversaries, finish, finish up, miseries, misunderstandings, points, points of view, put, put on, quarters, shod, shoes, three-quarter, three, understood, view, world view
«We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it a»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
obstruction, obstructions, points of view, regards
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