Quotes About Perspective

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

always think 360 degrees

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

There are two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle and the other as though everything is a miracle.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

The expense of making yourself panicked, enraged, and self-pitying is enormous. In time and money lost. In needless effort spent. In uncalled-for mental anguish. In sabotaging others' happiness. In foolishly frittering away potential joy during the one life—yes, the one life—you'll probably ever have.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.