David McCandless Quotes

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

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's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

Don’t take the wrong side of the argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what's happening. You have to write for everyone.

Personally, I like to put things in perspective.

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.