Quotes About Perspective

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.