Quotes About Perspective

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded.

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero. (17th Karmapa)

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Cómo se puede tomar al mundo en serio, siendo el mundo tan ridículo?

But, after all, we see only our own image in the universe-- our particular idiosyncrasies dictate the mode of our perceptions.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting

For our astronomers assure us that in this boundless finitude which we call the cosmos the straight lines of light lead not to infinity but to their source.

Aunque las potencias nos destruyan —dijo—, ¿quiénes somos para condenarlas? Sería lo mismo que una palabra juzgara al hombre que la ha pronunciado.

In every darkness, there is enough light for you to discover your path. In every light, there is abundant darkness for you to miss your path