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Perspective Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
- Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the…
- Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom…
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take… — Jeff Bridges
- People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact,… — David Brinkley
- Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill… — Russell Johnston
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius