Quotes About Perspective

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure realized that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

all of us at various times in our lives believe true things for poor reasons, and false things for good reasons, and that whatever we think we know, whether we're right or wrong, arises from our interactions with other human beings. Thinking independently, solitarily, "for ourselves," is not an option.

You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.

If everything is a matter of opinion, and if everybody is entitled to his own opinion, force becomes the only way of settling differences of opinion.

Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

when I slip into the past, I become it.