Quotes About Perspective

Si todo el mundo piensa igual es que alguien no está pensando.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

He was not finding life as a white man the rosy existence he had anticipated. He was forced to conclude that it was pretty dull and that he was bored. As a boy he had been taught to look up to white folks as just a little less than gods; now he found them little different from the Negroes, except that they were uniformly less courteous and less interesting.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humour excites in those who lack it.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.