Quotes About Perspective

Everyone here was the cleverest little monkey in his or her particular tree. Except now we're all in one tree together. It can be a shock. Not enough coconuts to go round. You'll be dealing with your equals for the first time in your life, and your betters. You won't like it.

This is life, he kept saying to himself. That was being dead, and this is being alive. That was death, this is life. I will never confuse them again.

Ya?am?n?z?n belli bir döneminde olaylarla ilgili bak?? aç?n?z?n tümden de?i?ti?i, o ana dek gördü?ünüz her ?eyin henüz bilmedi?iniz öbür yüzünü size döndürdü?ünü ans?z?n fark etti?iniz oldu mu hiç sevgili okurum?

Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.

The man of science, whether he knows it or not (most often, obviously, he does know it), whether he wishes it or not (ordinarily he does not wish it), cannot help but be a realist in the medieval sense of the term. He is distinguished from the philosopher only by the fact that the philosopher must, in addition, explain and justify the realism practiced by science

If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods and not of men. Ten lives would not suffice Aristotle to assimilate all the knowledge that has been accumulated on earth since his death, and Alexander would perhaps be able to realize his dream and conquer the world.

We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.

Life is just a bowl of cherries,Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us ... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went "Wow, it's not me!"

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty.... The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

To think that the spectre you see is an illusion does not rob him of his terrors: it simply adds the further terror of madness itself -- and then on top of that the horrible surmise that those whom the rest call mad have, all along, been the only people who see the world as it really is.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

The further off from England the nearer is to France—Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

He thought he saw an Elephant,That practiced on a fife:He looked again, and found it wasA letter from his wife."At length I realize," he said,"The bitterness of Life!"

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.""Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"