Quotes About Perspective

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.