Quotes About Perspective

I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.

The New York Times Review of Books is toilet paper. Used.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have to make.

Si suponemos que nuestras ideas éticas serán compartidas por todos los pueblos y en todas las épocas, somos simplemente ingenuos.

No hay razón para pensar que si el mundo es redondo todos deben saberlo. De igual manera, no hay razón para pensar que si hay verdades morales todos deben conocerlas.

El error fundamental en el argumento de las diferencias culturales es que trata de sacar una conclusión sustantiva acerca de un tema del mero hecho de que hay un desacuerdo acerca de él.

cuando respondemos de modo visceral a un asunto, es tentador suponer que simplemente sabemos lo que debe ser la verdad, sin siquiera tener que considerar los argumentos opuestos.

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

I've rattled around long enough to have learned one thing: the universe is cold, and cruel, and violent - but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love.

WHAT IS REALITY? It's both the simplest question to answer—and the hardest. Over the ages, it has baffled both philosophers and physicists. In The Republic, Plato described the true world as nothing more than a flickering shadow on a cave wall. Oddly enough, millennia later, scientists have come full circle to a similar conclusion.

young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be.

He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.

you say carjacking, i say borrowing.

Having survived the brutalities and humiliations of cancer, vanity seemed a foolish frivolity. She no longer had the patience for it.

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.