Quotes About Perspective

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

With our thoughts, we make the world. —Buddha

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

We are all a little crazy.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

All right," she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)

said, "The humans think I'm an asshole, wait till they get to know you." I thought you weren't speaking to me.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.

Like so many aspects of mortal life, sleep was overrated.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

Dr. Arada, who is what her marital partner Overse calls a "terminal optimist

It's joking." Ratthi managed to sound like he completely believed that. "That's how it looks when it's joking." He sent me on the feed, Stop joking.

talking to Frost had become less like negotiating with a small angry hostage