Quotes About Perspective

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

A form of self-delusion.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

My education was an education by movies.

Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better musical education than any amount of sonatas and fugues.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.