Quotes About Perspective

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I have gathered a posy of other menÂ's flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

#EarlyAgeEntrepreneur - It feels an enormously different situation to react, when one of your ex-employee join college where you study and he standing at a position of your teacher calls you 'Sir

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

not one of them had ever imagined, or could believe, that it might be possible to look at the world through the eye of a storm.

we, who have always thought of joy as rising . . . feel the emotion that almost amazes us when a happy thing falls.

History is notoriously not about the past.

Tridib often said of her, the inventions she lived in moved with her, so that although she had lived in many places, she had never travelled at all.

To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.

When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, Jews go home to Palestine. Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, Jews get out of Palestine.

Blessed are the dreamers, and cursed be the man who opens their eyes. True, the dreamers cannot save us, neither they nor their disciples, but without dreams and without dreamers the curse that lies upon us would be seven times heavier. Thanks to the dreamers, maybe we who are awake are a little less ossified and desperate than we would be without them.

Era talvez meu hábito 'profissional' de colocar-me no lugar, ou na pele, dos outros. Isso não significa que sempre justifico esses outros, mas que tenho a capacidade de enxergar seus pontos de vista p. 95.

To pick a modern image we once heard, but can't remember where: life is like driving a car with its front window opaque. All you have to go by are your rearview mirrors.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

Y nos han acostumbrado a no alegrarnos de lo que tenemos, sino a alegrarnos única y exclusivamente de lo que poseemos nosotros y no tienen los demás. Y aún peor, nos han acostumbrado desde pequeños a mantener todo tipo de ideas venenosas que empiezan siempre por las palabras

What surrounded me did not count. All that counted was made of words.