Quotes About Perspective

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: DEAD WHITE MALE

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

them. The days are long, but the years are short.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own-- that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

The world can't end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!