Quotes About Perspective

Se um determinado livro não tiver sobre o leitor um tal impacto que no dia seguinte ele deixe de ir ao emprego, esse livro nada vale.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.