Quotes About Perspective

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

Es gibt zwei Arten sein Leben zu leben: entweder so, als wäre nichts ein Wunder, oder so, als wäre alles eines. Ich glaube an Letzteres.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events

You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. { Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark }

You don't have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord. . . . So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

Hanya ada dua cara menjalani kehidupan kita. Pertama adalah seolah tidak ada keajaiban. Kedua adalah seolah segala sesuatu adalah keajaiban.

There can be no positive result through negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.