Unbalanced Perspective Quotes

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. The moment we want to disbelieve anything we have previously believed we suddenly discover not only that there is a mass of evidence against it but that this evidence was starting us in the face all the time.

I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

In society at large, … nostalgia can distort our understanding of the world in dangerous ways, making it needlessly negative about our current situation.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.