Conviction Quote by Micha Bar-Am

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of…

— Elizabeth Thornton

“In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent…

— Dalai Lama XIV

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of…

— Emma Goldman

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge…

— Sean Covey

“But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame…

— Lisa Unger

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing…

— Celeste Ng

“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the…

— Erna Paris

“...Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. And even the survivors who have decided to bear witness confirm it in…

— Elie Wiesel

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people…

— Romesh Ranganathan

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to…

— Nicholson Baker