Quotes About Perspective

That's what education should be, I said, the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Plato asked Socrates what is love... Socrates: Go into the field and get me the most special leaf... Plato returned with no leaf at hand said: I found the most beautiful leaf in the field but I didn't pick it up for I might find a better one, but when I returned to the place, it was gone... Socrates: We always look for the best in life. When we finally see it, we take it for granted and expecting a better one... NOT KNOWING IT WAS THE BEST AND LAST!!!

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not. ~ Protagoras

you don't seem to love money too much. And those who haven't made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who [c] haven't.

Pooh, he said. Much alike, aren't they, this case and that! There is nothing to hinder their being so, said I, but even if they are not alike and if the man thinks they are, do you believe he will any the less answer what appears to him, whether we forbid him or not?

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.

May not 'the wolf,' as the proverb says, 'claim a hearing'?

they think that you bear old age more [e] easily not because of the way you live but because you're wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Well, Socrates, it's by no means uncommon for people to say what is not correct.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Nevertheless, there's still a dissenting voice, albeit a single one—mine

if one of us, or someone else, merely {12} says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means?

Her zaman güzel öten kuÄŸular, ölümlerinin yaklaÅŸt???n? hissettiklerinde, belki de hizmetinde bulunduklar? tanr?n?n yan?na gideceklerine sevindiklerinden, daha çok ve daha güzel ötmeye baÅŸlarlar. Ama insanlar ölümden korktuklar? için kuÄŸulara iftira atarak, üzüntülerinden öttüklerini, yaklaÅŸan ölümleri için a??t yakt?klar?n? söylerler.

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

EUTHYPHRO: The truth is, Socrates, that I'm at a loss as to how to say what I want to say; somehow or other whatever we put forward has a habit of moving around and refusing to stay wherever we try to make it stand.

I shall reproach [30]him because he attaches little importance to the most important things and greater importance to inferior things.

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.