Single Perspective Quotes

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Experience cannot possibly have decided between two courses, so long as there has only been experience of one.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

There is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bllodeshot eye.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Beware of the person of one book.

Do not hear one and judge two.

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.

An economist always shows two sides to the same coin and a politician pretends that the coin has just one side.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I'll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I like that.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.