Quotes About Perspective

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

We perceive the world in the light of our hopes and fears.

Political debate is often about how to identify and characterize the facts relevant to the controversy in question.

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.

A person who is sixty and healthy almost surely will live many more years. But sixty is about the age when people stop being surprised if you look old or feel sick or drop dead.

Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, however successful the writer is.

So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

Augustine once warned, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."80

Compromise has a way of blinding our eyes, and we get used to the situation in which we find ourselves, comparing our own lives with the lives of others—until we rediscover the Word of God.

Augustine once commented, "If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

outrage" (28). This is the perspective of the survivors, and it is one neither novelist nor historians, philosophers nor theologians should try to "transcend.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Take the story of David. The way poor King Saul gets written about, it's like he's an idiot and a maniac, because you think, well, it was written by David's guys. But by the end, David looks more like the idiot and maniac, even though he's supposed to be the hero. Point: there comes a time in everyone's life when only the truth will do, and you have to look reality square in the eyes.

It is tempting to think that in order to change our experience of our world we need to force others to change. Such thinking is an abdication of our power to change ourselves.

You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.

Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.

Happiness is just a little thing; Humans mostly are too large for it. If you cannot feel the joy of spring Shrink yourself and maybe then you'll fit.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

My position is that Rand doesn't have all the right answers, but she does have all the right questions

A person who decrees "That's not funny" isn't in a position to define that for anyone, let alone everyone.