Quotes About Perspective

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!

The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I like to visit New York, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.