Quotes About Perspective

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man. It is wonderful to me that the race has progressed so broadly as it has, since most of its thought and all of its activity must run through the narrow neck of this one funnel.

Everyone sees different. What people are taught is how they adapt to life. What may be red to one, is green to another, but they still consider it red. People believe whatever they are told to. This leads to the disasters in the world today. And what will teach us to adapt to them?

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

It is hard for anyone to read with understanding what one takes to be wrong or wrong-headed.

The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise.

just when you think you've got it all sorted, something happens to make you question yourself and the world all over again.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

This is merely another definition of dramatic irony: to see through a character's eyes while being encouraged to see more than the character can see (an unreliability identical to the unreliable first-person narrator's). 11

But what is the point of tiring oneself over words that are being used from two quite different points of view? One should instead rely on the meaning intended.

and wasn't life full of layers and nuances, colored all kinds of shades of gray, and the way you felt about something when you were twenty or thirty or forty was not how you would feel about something when you were fifty or sixty or seventy---if only he could explain to her that regret can come at any time in your life, when you least expect it, and then you are stuck with it forever.

If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already.

there's just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We're not entitled to all the truth.

But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.

Só é problema se eu lhe der importância.

You can be happy about a lot of things in your life, yet just one thing can make you miserable.

Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, because marriage sounds like a goddamn job, and why would I want another one of those?

Visionære mennesker, de, som har en drøm, har ofte problemer med det nutidige, Dette at de kever derude i fremtiden, hvor drømmene, for dem, allerede er gået i opfyldelse, bringer dem hovedkulds ind i nutidens blodige kendsgerninger.

my life was only one of countless stories of human pain; that though I had considered myself the prima donna of sufferers, I was simply one of a vast troupe; that darkness indeed descends upon every man and woman, but that moon and stars also shine down upon all. p 315

We must not despise small things," she said at last, "for what at first glance may seem insignificant may well be the source of great beauty and truth.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.