Quotes About Perspective

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Urbino laughed. The Contessa, as usual when it came to things Venetian, was probably right.

At best, we base our thinking on disconnected facts or snippets of scientific knowledge uninformed by a broader evolutionary perspective.

when the Internet made it possible, I was in touch with her daughter, Marylyn, who was living in a mobile home in Utah with a companion. She was the grandmother of eighteen children and the great-grandmother of twenty-two. In what she said online, Marylyn had nothing but kind words to say about both parents, upsetting my conviction, after reading Mary's memoir, that Daddy was the bad guy.

As he once famously said, "I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong.

The best way to contradict him is to let him talk

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Mind you, I don't know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth." - Some Hope

How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...

In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.