Quotes About Perspective

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.