Quotes About Perspective

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

U usporedbi s beskona?noš?u, sve što se naziva dugoro?nim zapravo je kratkoro?no.

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

La esperanza ofusca la observación.

you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—

Neki doga?aji imaju kraj, ali nemaju po?etak; drugi zapo?inju, ali ne završe. Sve to ovisi o to?ki na kojoj promatra? stoji.

Leto smiled. "Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

You must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside might not even exist.

Persoana capabil? s? ia un lucru banal È™i obiÈ™nuit pentru a-l prezenta într-o nou? lumin? are darul de a însp?imânta. Nu vrem ca ideile noastre s? fie schimbate. Ne simÈ›im ameninÈ›aÈ›i de asemenea tentative. ?tiu deja tot ce-i important de È™tiut! spunem noi. Apoi apare Schimb?torul È™i r?stoarn? toate vechile noastre idei.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. —THE OPEN-ENDED PROOF FROM THE PANOPLIA PROPHETICA

I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The

Sje?anje nikada ne obnavlja stvarnost. Ono je samo preure?uje. Sva ta preure?enja mijenjaju original, postaju?i na taj na?in vanjski okviri za preporuke koje neizbježno brzo propadaju.

Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Ali u istini je uvijek sadržana dvozna?nost rije?i kojima se ona izražava.

All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.

Misterul vie?ii nu este o problem? care trebuie rezolvat?, ci o realitate care se cere tr?it?.

Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.