Quotes About Perspective

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

The world is as you are.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.