Conflicting Perspectives Quotes

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

One scientist will interpret data one way, another in another way. One scientist may feel that an experiment is valid, another feels it's invalid. That's why scientists have discussions and put forward their opinions in conferences and papers.

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

There is no subject on which there is a greater habitual difference of judgment between a man judging for himself, and the same man judging for other people.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

I'm sure Donald Trump will think that he has the truth, and some journalist is arguing that he has truth, and somebody else is arguing that they have the truth. And in fact it's even worse than that because they're so hell bent on their arguments that they will distort the truth consciously. They'll manipulate the facts to support their arguments because they're so hung up in the fight. That's where the problem is, so we argue all the time.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.