Quotes About Perspective

Exist? multe feluri de a vedea È™i multe feluri de a fi orb. (...) Ce simÈ›uri ne lipsesc de nu putem vedea o alt? lume în jurul nostru?

Nul ne peut vraiment leur en vouloir. On ne peut que les mépriser.

What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Memoria nu recreeaz? niciodat? realitatea. Memoria doar reconstituie. ?i orice reconstituire modific? originalul, devenind ea îns??i un cadru de referin?? extern, în mod inevitabil deficitar.

Greatness is a transitory experience.

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

Eylemlerin bir sonu vard?r ama baÅŸlang?c? yoktur; baz?lar? da baÅŸlar ama bitmez. Bu tamamen gözlemcinin nerede durduÄŸuna baÄŸl?d?r.

Hangi duyulardan yoksunuz ki, etraf?m?zdaki bir baÅŸka dünyay? göremiyor ve duyam?yoruz?

The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point

A great burden for one word, Lord. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

The one-eyed view of our universe says 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 may not even exist. —THE AZHAR BOOK; SHAMRA I:4

Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

I can say God, but that is not my God. That is only a noise and no more potent than any other noise.

L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess?

Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.

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. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

Radikali uvijek sve promatraju previše pojednostavljeno - crno i bijelo, dobro i zlo, oni i mi. Razmišljaju?i tako, oni otvaraju vrata kaosu. Vještina vladanja, kako ti to zoveš, jest upravljanje kaosom.