Quotes About Perspective

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a moustrap.

The world as we have created it is the process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Il y a deux façons de voir la vie, l'une comme si de rien n'était un mi- racle, l'autre comme si tout était mira- culeux.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

if the facts don't fit the theory change the facts

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Over the years, my experience, my tastes, my prejudices have changed: as the days go by, my memory keeps reshelving, cataloguing, discarding the volumes in my library, my words and my world - except for a few constant landmarks - are never one and the same. Heraclitus's bon mot about time applies equally well to my reading: "You never dip into the same book twice.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind that would let you take it in. You are incapable of believing in the possibility of what they are telling you, because nothing of the sort has ever happened to you before.

The books on my shelves do not know me until I open them, yet I am certain that they address me — me and every other reader — by name; they await our comments and opinions. I am presumed in Plato as I am presumed in every book, even in those I'll never read.

But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?

Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.

Ésa es la riqueza y la dificultad de la literatura: que no es un dogma.