Quotes About Perspective

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

The present generation doesn't know what a milestone is. They go so fast nowadays that miles mean nothing.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.

Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts," from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader The Holy Bible Elizabeth Bishop Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives, translated by Natasha Wimmer

I become influenced while I'm reading. I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do—they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.