Winifred Holtby Quotes

What is offensive is different for everyone.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

No two people see things the same way.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Change is always subjective.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most part reluctantly and always treat them from our point of view. We should observe and treat people not from our point of view but from all angles, I thought, associate with them in such a way that we can say we associate with them so to speak in a completely unbiased way, which however isn't possible, since we actually are always biased against everybody.

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.