Quotes About Perspective

Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing Is just a grain of sand And what you've been out there searching for forever Is in your hands And when you figure out Love is all that matters after all It sure makes everything else Seem so small

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

As Samuel Pepys would chirp—

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Talk comes from ideology but action comes from outlook.

Parts DO NOT BREAK - we break them.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war.

But to close your eyes for the last time on something precious - a hope, a hand reaching out for you - that must be the worst. Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The educated negroes have the attitude of contempt toward thier own people because they are taught to admire the Hebrews, the Greek, the Lati and the Teuton and to despise the African.

Negro teacher instructing Negro children is in many respects a white teacher thus engaged, for the program in each case is about the same.

Highly educated" Negroes denounce persons who advocate for the Negro a sort of education different in some respects from that now given the white man.

They do not like to hear such expressions as "Negro literature," "Negro poetry," "African art," or "thinking black"; and, roughly speaking, we must concede that such things do not exist. These things did not figure in the courses which they pursued in school, and why should they? "Aren't we all Americans? Then, whatever is American is as much the heritage of the Negro as of any other group in

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).

Il buon senso è la cosa meglio distribuita al mondo. Ciascuno infatti pensa di esserne così ben provvisto che anche coloro che di tutte le altre cose non si contentano mai, di questa sono soliti non volerne più di quanto ne hanno.

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

We usually judge people by our own reactions fears, and desires. We do not see them as separate people . . . but as part of ourselves and our lives. We attribute to them motives which we would have in the same circumstances.