Quotes About Perspective

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

From Job's perspective, God's answer is tantamount to a Copernican revolution. Job comes to realize that the world does not revolve around himself, not even around humanity. Creation is polycentric.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

Isn't human mind a funny thing? A bullet is a bullet, dead is dead. The reduction in probability of your demise is precisely the same in both cases. Why isn't your price the same?

The trouble is, these four domains of behavior coexist in all of us. A person who is risk-averse in one situation will turn reckless in another. All it takes is a changed reference point.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

Gee, I'm not used to looking at these without the meat on them!

It takes two to speak truth—One to speak, and another to hear. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The middle class child says a rock is a stone; a lower class child says a rock is hard, and you throw it.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Never assume the obvious is true.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.