Quotes About Perspective

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

Always in life carry this motto with you: When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything.

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

Death is an inconvenience, to be sure," The Wizard Landau Bain, Lucky Stiff (still writing it)

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this generation." "They got to find their own way," said Aunt Pearl. "Same as we did.

Seen through the eyes of Arab alchemists, or Persian mystics, the earliest Greek philosophers weren't just thinkers or rationalists. They were links in an initiatory succession

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

I will catch Christ with a greased worm.

Surely the lives of the old are briefer than the young.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.