Quotes About Perspective

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

After the onslaught of loss, both personal and historical, do we really believe a good lunch and an aesthetic perception settles the matter?

Abstract love is the nosy neighbor of abstract hate; they see right into each other's windows and they always agree on everything.

what really distinguishes us from apes is not the opposable thumb but the ability to hold in mind opposing ideas, a distinction we should probably try to preserve.

If you can love abstractly, you're only a bad day away from hating abstractly.

You don't really want to crash down the whole universe just to satisfy your situational unease or your incapacity to see the whole picture, do you? You don't want a life based on your failure to understand life, right?

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.) [Fables1, The Bird and its Sun / L'Oiseau et son Soleil]

Binoculars are a distance when near the eyes. Far from home, near the heart, love.

Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles voient de loin quand près des yeux. - Loin de soi, près du coeur ; amoureux.)

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

Even artificial flowers have a vase. Life is Beautiful. (Même les fleurs artificielles Ont un vase. La vie est belle.)

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)

The key to happiness is not on the lock. (La clé du bonheur N'est sur la serrure)

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!