Quotes About Perspective

Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up.

Why read? Because we are given more than we are.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

I always remember Ted Sturgeon's statement when he joined us here to write for Star Trek. Some friend of his said, 'Ted, how can you possibly write for television? Don't you know that ninety percent of television is crap?' Ted looked back at him and said, 'Ninety percent of everything is crap.

It's not in our human nature to acknowledge our personal contribution in inspiring the world. Humility can prevent us from seeing the forest for the trees.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.

If God is your co-pilot, swap seats!

Frequently I remember something H. Richard Niebuhr wrote after having spent a number years trying to formulate a comprehensive perspective on faith. He likens faith to a cube. From any one angle of vision, he points out, the observer can see and describe at least three sides of the cube. But the cube has back sides, a bottom and insides as well. Several angles of vision have to be coordinated simultaneously to do any real justice in a characterization of faith

vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

front of them. This illustrates the principle that vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one's opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.

The historian must have no country. —JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

But to discover one's own worldview is much more valuable. In fact, it is a significant step toward self-awareness, self-knowledge and self-understanding.

How can you have an opinion, indeed a strong opinion, about something you haven't even read?

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.