Quotes About Perspective

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

Anthony to James about Jeremy : "Need I remind you this is a seventeen-year-old boy we're talking about?" "Need I remind you what you were like when you were seventeen?" James countered.

She heard his tongue click."No wonder you want to marry, Ros Roslynn.You simply want to change your name".

Cerca di restare calma, in ogni caso. Per una donna ingoiare il rospo è più facile che per un uomo». «Davvero? Direi il contrario, visto che abbiamo la gola più stretta».

Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.

Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

The universalism I aspire to does neither. It holds that the same light shines through all our windows, but that each window is different.

Upon finishing this parable, Buddha said to the seekers who had been quarreling over the nature of God and the afterlife, "How can you be so sure of what you cannot see? We all are like unsighted people in this world. We cannot see God. Nor can we know what is going to happen after we die. Each one of you may be partly right in your answers. Yet none of you is fully right. Let us not quarrel over what we cannot be sure of.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we would be happy with more?

The world is exactly like you think it is, and that's why.

I have always endeavored to listen to chat each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion" (Mandela - p 31)

I certainly wish that all men could be Free, while you, I suppose, do not.

The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance.

I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as "historical factorials." Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.

The size of a human cell is to that of a person as a person's size is to that of Rhode Island. Likewise, a virus is to a person as a person is to the earth; an atom is to a person as a person is to the earth's orbit around the sun; and a proton is to a person as a person is to the distance to Alpha Centauri.

When feminist author Shere Hite or columnist Ann Landers reports that a surprisingly high percentage of their respondents are having affairs or would rather not have had children, we should automatically ask ourselves who is most likely to answer these questionnaires: someone having an affair or someone reasonably content, someone exasperated by her kids or someone happy with them.

Partiendo del hecho geométrico y existencial de que nuestro ser está en el centro de nuestra historia y en la periferia de las historias de los demás, muchos llegamos al mismo tiempo a la algo extravagante conclusión de que nuestra vida abunda en coincidencias y sucesos notables, mientras que las de los demás es más bien típica.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet.")

Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

I think life has to get bigger to make death seem smaller.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

No way it's up to me to decide which life is "better." So if it isn't up to me...I don't get it, ma. How can a life be saved if a life is lost?

Friends transform each other's outlook to a completely new perspective. Let's yours be a positive one.

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?