Quotes About Perspective

Whether you do or think you do, it's the same thing. You spend what you haven't got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven't got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

The woman factor explains many things of men.

la vida resulta dichosa cuando se toma como viene.

Biliyor musunuz,' diye ekledi. 'Bay Butler'a ac?yorum. DoÄŸru dürüst harcayamayaca?? otuz bin dolar kazanmak için hayat?n? boÅŸa harcam??. Niye mi, çünkü art?k otuz bin dolar verse bile çocukken on sente alabileceÄŸi ÅŸeyleri alamaz, mesela ÅŸeker, f?st?k veya tiyatroda en üst balkondan bir bilet.

mas o branco fala verdade de formas diferentes. Hoje fala verdade, amanhã fala verdade de outra maneira e não há como compreendê-lo nem se entende o seu modo de ser.

Todos estamos prontos para pensar que há algo de errado no processo mental de quem discorda de nós.

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 

We are all prone to think there is something wrong with the mental processes of the man who disagrees with us.

Dac? mi-ar fi dat s? aleg între a fi obligat s? tr?iesc în Molokai tot restul vieÈ›ii, sau în East End-ul Londrei, East Side-ul New Yorkului sau Stockyard-ul Chicago-ului, aÅŸ alege Molokai-ul f?r? s? ÅŸov?i. AÅŸ prefera un singur an în Molokai pentru cinci ani de via?? în oricare din celelalte locuri amintite - haznale ale degrad?rii ÅŸi mizeriei umane.

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.

Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he's a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone's heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He's just a guy with a funny name.

COMMUNICATING IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGES IN ANY BUSINESS, BECAUSE PEOPLE HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.

He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.

T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.

Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.

Why? Why is it has to be this, why not the other way round? Is there a simpler way? What can I do with this? Ask yourself all sorts of questions.

Rabban Bar Sawma

Jack Weatherford

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.

When] we practice science (and this is true of all our experience), we are always decoding a part of nature which is not complete. We simply cannot get out of our own finiteness.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.