Quotes About Perspective

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

Two different people appealing to a search engine with the same question do not necessarily receive the same answers. The concept of truth is being relativized and individualized—losing its universal character.

To understand a man,' Napoleon is said to have observed, 'look at the world when he was twenty.' Thatcher had turned twenty in 1945.

can the need for philosophy be met by humans assisted by AIs, which interpret and thus understand the world differently?

World order cannot be achieved by any one country acting alone. To achieve a genuine world order, its components, while maintaining their own values, need to acquire a second culture that is global, structural, and juridical—a concept of order that transcends the perspective and ideals of any one region or nation.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

Most medical students go through a brief period when they develop all manner of imaginary illnesses – I myself had leukaemia for at least four days – until they learn, as a matter of self-preservation, that illnesses happen to patients, not to doctors.

But death is not always a bad outcome, you know, and a quick death can be better than a slow one.

You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.

We have been most successful, however, when our patients return to their homes and get on with their lives and never need to see us again. They are grateful, no doubt, but happy to put us and the horror of their illness behind them. Perhaps they never quite realized just how dangerous the operation had been and how lucky they were to have recovered so well. Whereas the surgeon, for a while, has known heaven, having come very close to hell.

The only meaning of death is how I live my life now and what I will have to look back upon as I lie dying.

Love, I reminded my trainees, can be very selfish.