Quotes About Perspective

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.

If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Longevity is highly over rated.

my experience taught me that most emergencies are nothing of the kind, and you can figure that out if you take time to catch your breath.

Q: I'm in the fact business, Chief. I avoid the news and opinion channels.

No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story. As

when I arrive at a new airport is handpick a taxi driven by a non-native. Foreign-born residents are likely to tell you the truth about a country and a population that natives can't or won't.

de-couple the animals themselves from the products on sale. This is a rule of thumb in the United States, but nothing you would ever see in Europe. Europeans have known extensive food shortages, and rationing, and Americans, fortunately, never have. When US tourists visit a marche or charcuterie in France, many are startled and even repulsed by the displays of meat and fowl

No one learns only by staring in the mirror. We all learn—and are sometimes transformed—by encountering differences that challenge our own experience and assumptions.

If someone throws herself off a tall building, it may make sense to employ Newtonian physics in order to explain her immediate prospects. But it is also quite obvious that this explanation fails to address other important questions which we may wish to ask about that person's life and fate.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

your thoughts concerning God are too human.

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes on the unclean things? It is as though we enjoyed only looking at – if you will pardon the expression – a man's behind.

A man is called 'spiritually poor,' not because he has no money or anything of his own, but because he does not covet it or set his comfort and trust upon it as though it were his kingdom of heaven.