Quotes About Perspective

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

I see my discourse leaves you cold; Dear kids, I do not take offense; Recall: the Devil, he is old, Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?

Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle Seine besondere Meinung preist! Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt, Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.