Quotes About Perspective

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."

I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man's work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.

As soon as you're sure you're right, there's no point in your being here.

It's not about how women are deficient. It's more about how men are deficient. Our social deficiencies, lack of perspective, or whatever you want to call it, is what enables us to study one species of dragonfly for twenty years, or sit in front of a computer for a hundred hours a week writing code. This is not the behavior of a well-balanced and healthy person, but it can obviously lead to great advances in synthetic fibers. Or whatever.

the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being a deterrent, serves as an unforgeable guarantee of freshness.

That is the kind of beauty I was trying to get you to see," Orolo told me. "Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.

Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

It's just like the reviews promised—other people's ordinariness is more rewarding than your own. Their banality is soothing to your own sense of failure. Because being you is so much more interesting than being me.