Quotes About Perspective

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

Once in a while there's wisdom in recognizing that the Boss is.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it?

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.