Quotes About Perspective

Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

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

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

And of course, for all we know, I might be a hundred years old already, and she just a sleepy little girl with glasses.

Not the least charm of this tableau is that it can be so easily dismissed as preposterous.

Here's what Nietzsche said to the ceiling: "The rank of the philosopher is determined by the rank of his laughter." But he couldn't really laugh.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

The great algorithm to remember in dealing with this tendency is simple: an idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's easily available to you.

we almost always make the implicit assumption that everybody else thinks and ex-periences about the same way as we do, with the exception of "crazy" people.

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.

Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

Ye ken, it's the living and no' the dead who know the truth. The dead still believe it was worth dying for." ? Charles Todd, Racing the Devil

From a legal perspective, illegal communication behavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In

We are not saying that a reader should not ultimately disagree and try to show where the author is wrong. We are saying only that he should be as prepared to agree as to disagree. Whichever he does should be motivated by one consideration alone—the facts, the truth about the case.

Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.

In a pluralistic society it is not only wrong but unwise for Christians to shake their Bibles and arrogantly assert that "God says . . ." That is the quickest way for Christians, a distinct minority in civil affairs, to lose their case altogether.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.