Quotes About Perspective

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

THE HEAVENS To the mallet of the Highest Mind The heavens are the smallest possible ball. (Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

There is one kind of man worse than a boastful man: a complaining one.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

If it is dark enough, one candle is plenty.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities. Proverb

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.