Quotes About Perspective

My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I discover that there are other minds in understanding what other people say and do.

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

But sometimes when you're different You just need a different song

The young can be so unreasonable in what they expect from