Quotes About Perspective

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

I know everything I know about.

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

A vida é como um lago para onde uma criança ociosa atira uma pedrinha e, a partir desse ato, as ondas espalham-se para o exterior. Errado. A vida é um ribeiro: não uma torrente de água a galgar as margens, apenas um ribeirinho vulgar e insignificante, com os redemoinhos, turbilhões e vórtices normais [...]

She reads Proust and he watches the Kardashians. Or worse, he wanted Clinton to win and she crows about Trump's victory. Yes, the second will be much harder to overcome than the first, but relational happiness can prevail

Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

The past doesn't change, does it?" "It's still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

there are a few acts more aggressive than describing someone else

I am almost dizzied by a sudden knowledge, as cold as snow down my spine; that I, too, will grow up one day like everyone else, and look back and miss the years gone by, and the things I could have done, should have done. And growing up is suddenly not something to be impatient for, not all jam and buns and doing as one pleases. It is precisely the opposite.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

And because, from the Western perspective, the main source of the heresy seemed to be Bulgaria, the heretics were often called Bulgars—bougres in French, thus buggers in English.

On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn't be dismissed just because there's no Hitler in sight.

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

Yogi Berra reportedly said, "It's not the heat, it's the humility.