Angela Rye Quotes

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion. But it is also useful to have some facts.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Put your choices in perspective.

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

If I'm going to talk about something, I need to be educated about it, and I need to have seen all the perspectives.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.