Quotes About Perspective

No doubt the elders of prehistoric tribes thought the younger generation's cave paintings were not up to the standard they had set.

Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time.

And there are certain people—I could think of several myself—who seem to depress one and undermine one's energies, quite unconsciously of course, but one feels somehow that vitality has passed from oneself to them.

Oscar Wilde: "Many people know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

If it takes night to make day, pain to know pleasure, black to make white, then doesn't it stand to reason that the depth of our friendships could be measured by the quality of our enemies?

Cynicism is romanticism turned sour.

From the vantage point of the present, the prize promised by the idea of progress can look less like an achievement than an affront.

Imagining human culture from the perspective of a non-human species can be salutary.

Der ideale Ort ist immer da, wo ich gerade bin. Ich spüre kein mich aufzehrendes Verlangen, Indien zu bereisen. Auch in die Mongolei gehe ich nicht, da wird einem nur das Pferd gestohlen.

never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then, if he doesn't like it, you're a mile away. And you have his goddamned shoes.

Abrams remembered the old advice to never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then, if he doesn't like it, you're a mile away. And you have his goddamned shoes.

What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

Either live in reality or get left behind in imagination

The truth is only irrelevent when its beneficial

Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.

It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better.

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

The main lesson here is that not every problem can be solved at the level of abstraction where it manifests.

The answer is simple: it's not the world that is boring and repetitive, it's your mind that is boring and repetitive. Your

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful.

I always say that "half of who you are is other people," meaning that the beliefs, attitudes, and biases of the people around you gradually become your own.

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Fizikçilerin atomlardan olu?an ?eylerin iç derinliklerinde bulduklar? o yeni ve garip dünya, Cartes ve Marco Polo'nun ayak basm?? oldu?u yerlerden çok daha büyüleyiciydi. Bu denli heyecan uyand?rmas?n?n nedeni bu yeni dünyayla ilgili her ?eyin geçerli mant?k ve sa?duyuya ters dü?mesiydi.

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed