Quotes About Perspective

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

You can easily recognize the good parts of your life because they are starkly outlined in crap.

interesting ones." "I find that hard to believe," Linda said.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.

Except in dealing with commonplaces and catch phrases one has to assimilate, imaginatively, something of another's experience in order to tell him intelligently of one's own experience.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art builds.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat, And when he hath the kernel eat, Who doth not fling away the shell?

Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?

In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.

He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. "Let's just say we had indications…" and he let it dangle in the air, as if mystery were the ultimate justification.

When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met Yamashita. Now I've come to the awareness that I'm a martial artist with some advanced academic credentials. "We know there are people more qualified, Burke,

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.