Quotes About Perspective

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, they turn 15.

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?