Quotes About Perspective

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that same thing may be hurting someone else inside.

He loved to be among people and talk to them, find out what they had done and what they believed in. He felt that everybody was a traveler on the same journey, and a person should be interested in what others had learned along the way. But the Public was a different matter. The Public was too delicate, too selfish and selfabsorbed, a loud collective Voice clamoring with complaints, demanding attention.

if you think you know what is going on, you haven't got a clue about what's going on.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

CHANGING MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION

Moreover, if one can present a topic in several ways, two important outcomes ensue. First, one reaches more students; after all, some students learn better from narrative entry points and others from social or artistic entries. Second, one conveys to students the idea that disciplinary experts readily conceive of topics in more than one way. There is no royal road to disciplinary understanding.

The tenets (and limits) of behaviorism are well conveyed in an old joke: Two behaviorists make love. The first then says to the second, "Well, it was great for you. But tell me, how was it for me?

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible and to present it so that it would be comprehensible to people accustomed to different modes of thought and with different educational preparations.

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

A life was owned by the person who lived it, he believed. What happened didn't always happen because you wanted it to, but what you made of it was your responsibility.