Distorting Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to… — Isaac Asimov
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add colorâ€”itâ€™s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated… — Sylvia Plath
Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in… — Milton Friedman
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones… — Michael Oppenheimer
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's… — Neil Gaiman
Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see. — Peter Senge
Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon… — Lauryn Hill
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world… — Bertrand Russell
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz
The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is… — Juan Williams
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the… — Jean Rhys
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193 — Craig Clevenger
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the… — Bertrand Russell
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of… — Leon Jouhaux
Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free market competition. Yes,… — Juan Williams
We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own criminal tendencies. — Sigmund Freud

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