Quotes About Perspective

Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it.

the more languages you know, the better you understand your own. He realised that languages divide the world up differently from each other. He was half French, and had often wondered why it was that his French personality was different from his British one. In French he was more emphatic and rhetorical. Somebody had told him once that in Russian there was no word for blue. There was bound to be a word for pushrod, or tappet, though.

Acreditava no corpo dela, não acreditava no seu espírito. Considerava-a como uma encantadora emboscada, em relação à guerra e em relação à vida.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

A man ought to know enough to make a choice; and pa, he always advised me to look to both sides of a proposition.

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers...only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth.

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait.

Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them.

I was raised up where folks looked to the hills, only up where we came from you hadn't chance to look much higher, we were that near the top of the ridge.

There are folks who can't abide camp-robber jays, but I take to them. Often enough they've been my only company for days at a time, and they surely do get friendly. They'll steal your grub right from under your nose, but who I am to criticize the lifestyle of a bird? He has his ways, I have mine. Like I say, I take to them.

I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.

I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy.

No telling what those men wanted... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian...

Keep an open mind," he told me, "for no man can say what can or cannot be, nor can he say what does or does not exist.

It seems to me that the more money one has the more one worries about little unimportant things.

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.