Quotes About Perspective

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that? Or if compelled to be so scholastic as to labour the point they have explained, as usual, that oneself cannot be the absolute because the idea of oneself, to arise, must be contrasted with other ideas. Therefore, you cannot well have the idea of a world in which nothing appears but the idea of yourself.

A picture you hold long enough in your head becomes your reality..

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

Sometimes it crosses my mind that the things I write here are nothingother than images that prisoners or sailors tattoo on their skin.

Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

We are accustomed to think of events as a sequence of facts: one set of facts follows another in a never-ending chain. When a situation has thinking participants, the chain does not lead directly from fact to fact. It links a fact to the participants' thinking and then connects the participants' thinking to the next set of facts.

In addition to going against the herd, you've said one of your techniques is to set yourself outside the process. What do you mean exactly? How do you get outside? I am outside. I am a thinking participant and thinking means putting yourself outside the subject you think about. Perhaps it comes easier to me than to many others because I have a very abstract mind and I actually enjoy looking at things, including myself, from the outside.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.

Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.

Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children.

As a matter of fact, life starts to feel mighty long when all you eat is turkey bacon and egg whites and a side of arugula.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.