Quotes About Perspective

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

To know the world, one must construct it

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.