Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.
All my father saw was what he wanted to see.
There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
Emmerdale's been great. I'm very biased but I think it's in a really good place.
I think it's true that people seemed to have had a kind of tunnel vision in my regard, and that has been something that I've been having to fight against for a long time.
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
[Describing Edmund Burke:] Burke was a damned wrong-headed fellow, through his whole life obstinate and jealous.
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
Nobody sees people as people. It's all how they relate to my little group.
There shall be no neutrals. Men shall either like or dislike me.
We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
Your understanding of culture can be very skewed sometimes, depending on what you're taking in!
People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.
My dad played my dad in 'Patriots Day' and that's why he thinks that's a good movie.
Remember that all is opinion.
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
