Quotes About Perspective

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ

We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

Carlyle thought little of these Essays. "Wretched lives" is his best word for them when he is bilious and the world is all gloom; but when in another place he confesses that he was seldom happier than when writing them, we may take his condemnation as he did his bile, "with a drop of oil and a grain of salt.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

You probably learned in your high school civics course, as I did in mine, that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. Well, I'm here to tell you this morning that this is not strictly true. The Court of Public Opinion is actually the highest court in the land.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be." That makes it clear as glass.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

A woman is told by her doctor that she has six months to live. "Is there anything I can do?" she asks. "Yes, there is," the doctor replies. "You could marry a tax accountant." "How will that help my illness?" the woman asks. "Oh, it won't help your illness," says the doctor, "but it will make that six months seem like an eternity!

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.

Essentially these books consist of asking the reader to forget about the forest of Churchill's life and instead focus on a few trees that a given writer believes deserve more attention

Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that "he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic." At