Quotes About Perspective

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

We see the world as we are.

There was a stump of a tree, and in the dark, a thief came that way and said, "That is a policeman." A young man waiting for his beloved saw it and thought that it was his sweetheart. A child who had been told ghost stories took it for a ghost and began to shriek. But all the time it was the stump of a tree. We see the world as we are. Do

The majority of us cannot see beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle — that is our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.