Quotes About Perspective

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Loretta's eyes flashed. "Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?" she asked. "Choosing to believe something, whether it's true or not?" "In one way or another, Loretta, isn't that what gets everyone through the night?" I asked.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Now 'tis little joyTo know I'm farther off from heavenThan when I was a boy.

The koan describes three monks watching a banner flutter in the breeze. One monk observes, "The banner is moving," but the second insists, "The wind is moving.

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Which takes more courage: to rigidly and inflexibly defend a principle, or to demonstrate a sense of perspective and willingness to compromise or walk away from a senseless argument?

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.