Quotes About Perspective

God has not designed you for failure. He created you for success—not success from the world's perspective, but success His way—which glorifies and honors Him and also brings many blessings.

Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania — then might I write largely enough for our subjects.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.

Women have more Theory of Mind than men, which makes them nicer people – less prone to start wars or engage in egocentric monologues at the dinner table. There's no reason to restrict Theory of Mind to an ability to put oneself into another's shoes. It involves too an ability to put oneself into another's hoofs, pads or fins. Broadly, it is the ability to appreciate the interconnectedness of things –

When we walk into a wood, we share its sensory outputs (light, colour, smell, sound and so on) with all the other creatures there. But would any of them recognise our description of the wood? Every organism creates a different world in its brain. It lives in that world.

All humans are Scheherazades: we die each morning if we don't have a good story to tell.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.

Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind... I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.

I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.

Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

Adults are obsolete children...