Quotes About Perspective

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are prisoners of ideas.

We become what we think about all day long.

What you see is what it is!

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

In order to enjoy life one must be a master of life—for to be a slave to its inconsistencies can only mean torment; and in order to enjoy the senses one must be master of them. To dominate the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere beyond.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

Hay un momento en que el astrónomo, debajo del gran telescopio, se convierte en microbio del microscopio de la luna que se asoma a observarle

The Indian commitment to the semantics of socialism is at least as deep as ours to the semantics of free enterprise . . . Even the most intransigent Indian capitalist may observe on occasion that he is really a socialist at heart. J. K. GALBRAITH, economist, 1958

Nehru had an unusual capacity – unusual among politicians, at any rate – to view both sides of the question

There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

A great actor is not the one who showcases his acting skills, but the one who lives up to each individual's varied perceptions, making them believe to be right from their perspective, howsoever contradictory it may seem so!