Quotes About Perspective

It's always best to look ahead and not backwards. Possessions are not important. Think of those beautiful porcelain pieces I had. Before they came to me, they had all passed through the hands of many people, surviving wars and natural disasters. I got them only because someone else lost them. While I had them, I enjoyed them; now some other people will enjoy them. Life itself is transitory. Possessions are not important.

Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.

Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.

How can those who live in the light of the day possibly comprehend the depths of the night?

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

As soon as you feel yourself against me you have ceased to understand my position and consequently my arguments! You have to be the victim of the same passion!

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Cuando quieren elevarse, ustedes miran hacia arriba; yo miro hacia abajo porque ya me encuentro en las alturas

La fe no transporta las montañas, sino que coloca montañas donde no las hay.

What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts.

As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge.

If the view is correct, then humanity misses the opportunity to exchange truth for error. If, however, the view is misguided, then we forfeit an opportunity to reinforce truth through its collision with error. Every opinion has value for us either because it is true, or else because, though false, it reinforces the truth and contributes to its emergence.

If you only know your own side of a case, then your belief is likely to be inadequate. You need to be able to refute counter-arguments to your position otherwise you aren't justified in your belief even if it happens to be true.

wisdom and understanding in the course of human history will only come fully at a late stage, when we're looking back on what has already happened, like someone looking back on the events of a day as night falls.

was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Black Poetry is not for Black People…it is for everybody

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

I share with the painters the desire To put a three-dimensional picture On a one-dimensional surface from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.