Quotes About Perspective

And, hence, to manage it. For if, as Thucydides warned two thousand years earlier, words in crises can lose their meaning, leaving in the "ability to see all sides of a question [an] incapacity to act on any,"82

Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

Complexity fully rendered would take too long and contain too much, thereby entangling judgment. Complexity as what you want or expect would only confirm what you think you know. You need something in between.

requiere cierta «visión de conjunto» que revele el significado y la relevancia de cada una de las partes. Los atenienses perdieron esa «visión de conjunto» en Sicilia. La asamblea

existiera y nuestro terapeuta fue Tucídides.

If only Americans "could have their toys taken away from them, be spanked, educated and made to grow up, it might be worthwhile to act as a guardian for their foreign interests in the meantime. But when one can do none of these things?" So

y Tolstói están, por tanto, más cerca de lo que parece y nosotros tenemos la suerte de asistir a sus seminarios siempre que queramos.

The United States and the Soviet Union are different. . . . America's new president, Richard Nixon, is a longtime rightist, a leader of the anti-communists there. I like to deal with rightists. They say what they really think—not like the leftists, who say one thing and mean another.72

If one is fed, housed, and healthy, then debts, pride, conscience, standards, dignity, and what you will, will have to be laughed off....

abrirnos a la posibilidad de que, al menos en algunos aspectos, fueron más sabios que nosotros».[55]

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

The truth is more important than the facts. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867–1959)

The Sun is white (with a hint of turquoise), not yellow.

He once wrote: "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image.

Thus much of our Western thinking is not scientific and objective but is orientated through a one-eyed perspective which reflects the prejudiced values of the West, and which necessarily prevents the enquirer from seeing the full picture. This is equivalent to what Blaut calls 'Eurocentric tunnel history'.32 What happens, then, when we view the world through a more inclusive two-eyed perspective?

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims)

Ideas are where you find them

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.