Quotes About Perspective

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

Een leider, zegt hij, is als een herder. Hij blijft achter de kudde en laat de behendigste voorlopen, waarop de anderen volgen, zonder te beseffen dat ze steeds vanuit de achterhoede worden geleid.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

What struck me so forcefully was how small the planet had become during my decades in prison;

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

Niente può essere più lontano dalla verità.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que todo o Machado de Assis! ritinha

In my opinion—which is as good as yours and anybody else's—truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Life, like all games, becomes true, when one realises it is a game.

Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

it was harder than others to remember that evil was still front page news. Goodness and order were so much the norm they needn't be reported.

She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, "Nothing," he wasn't lying.

when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

I'd say the way to look at it is this. You took a lot of trouble answering letters from a stranger, and maybe some of them were rather stupid questions. I wouldn't know. The fact is that you made a friend, and now this friend's going to a little bit of trouble to help you. That's fair enough. Look at it that way.

William Blake: "In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves will not develop in our lives.

It is not what you want that you attract; you attract what you believe to be true.

The perfect man judges not after appearances; he judges righteously. He sees himself and others as he desires himself and them to be. He hears what he wants to hear.

This experience has convinced me that man can be anything he pleases if he will make the conception habitual and think from the end. It has also shown me that I can no longer excuse myself by placing the blame on the world of external things—that my good and my evil have no dependency except from myself—that it depends on the state from which I view the world how things present themselves.

I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did.

La verdadera clarividencia descansa, no en tu capacidad de ver cosas más allá del alcance de la visión humana, sino más bien en tu capacidad de comprender lo que ves.

The best denial is total indifference. Things wither and die through indifference. They are kept alive through attention. You do not deny a thing by saying it does not exist. Rather you put feeling into it by recognizing it, and what you recognize as true, is true to you, be it good, bad or indifferent.