Quotes About Perspective

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Embrace reality by imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.