Richard Armour Quotes

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

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

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Remember that all is opinion.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

There are two sides to every question.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.