Quotes About Perspective

The key is, she said, to disengage yourself from all your ideas about what is "natural.

For me, other people are the point, but other people can disappear.

We're always, in everything we do in this world, she said, limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have an enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl.

What's the point of anyone's search for answers? The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She wanted his real one. What would he say about it all? She could imagine writing a whole book on him alone.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

Even when you win the rat race , you're still a rat .

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man

Sometimes I think we'd be better off blind.

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

As Walt Whitman says, "I am sufficient as I am." It is sufficient that I live—and am probably going to live for another few decades—and that human life exists. Viewed that way, the problem becomes amazingly simple and admits of no two answers. What can be the end of human life except the enjoyment of it?

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.