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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Zedong

Different, Small, Big

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

Life, Bitterness, Expect

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams

Person, Same, Felt

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 through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Forget, Evil

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo

Nature, Means, Source

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne

Life, Simple, Eyes

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Image, Outside

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan

Dangerous, Point, Insight

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.
Hillary Clinton

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot

Real, Point, Ideal

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
Colin Powell

Marriage, Religion, Respect

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin Powell

Experience, Find, Talk

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Abdul Kalam

Age, Optimism, Less

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

Scientific, Ordinary, Gain

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pleasant, Buildings, Various

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

Different, Find, Eyes

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli

History, Earth, Heaven

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Health, Alone

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler

Looking, Bother, Composed

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

Life, Experience, Learning

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Stockwell Day

God, Respect, Design

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Paul Watzlawick

Reality, Dangerous, Belief

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Zhuangzi

Everything, Away, Point

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
Denis Waitley

Goal, Energy, Keep

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren

Woman, Purpose, Dress

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley

Work, Time, Winners

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Donald Trump

Great, Trying, Country

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
Marquis de Sade

God, Men, Judge

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel Butler

Great, Point, Mistake

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