Quotes About Perspective

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved with the name of one of Coronado´s captains. We spoke harshly of the Spaniards, who, in their zeal for gold and converts, had needlessly extinguished the native Indians. It did not occur to us that we, too, were the captains of an invasion too sure of its righteousness.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another

Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Una mirada desde la alcantarilla puede ser una visión del mundo, la rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos.

La miopía exalta la individualidad. Verme a mí perfectamente y a los otros como pobres seres borrosos.

No es posible regresar a ninguna parte. Los puntos de partida no se quedan quietos y a la vuelta ya no están. Para poder volver se necesita, por empezar, un punto de partida eterno e inmutable. Pero todo se mueve y no hay forma de detener el universo.

La verdad es que aquí cada uno oye lo que quiere. El lenguaje es interpretativo. Los mensajes varían en el trayecto y nadie se da cuenta o a nadie le importa. Sí es también no o quizás . No es posible aceptar ni rechazar. Nacer es morir. Quedarse es partir.

Leaping is as beautiful as crawling: don't compare yourself; develop your own values. Change your world or change worlds.

It's not enough to quote someone; it's important to specify what aspect of that person you're referencing. Every time we talk about someone, we speak of that person as if our perception is the same for everyone. When