Quotes About Perspective

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

Although the truth exists objectively and independently of us, we can never be absolutely certain we grasp it.

Red is not in the apple but in the perception.

We tend to extrapolate the recent past indefinitely into the future; in the 1970s, investors thought that inflation would never end, whereas now most people think it will never occur again. The first viewpoint was proven wrong within a few years, and the latter viewpoint most likely will be soon.

Old men are perhaps the most polished diplomats but youth changes the world.

People don't see the world as it is, rather we impose our beliefs on what we experience.

As part of our interpretive task, then, we must distinguish between kingdom values and cultural values within the biblical text. With every change in our culture we have to reevaluate our interpretation of Scripture to determine what our perspective should be. At

If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.