Quotes About Perspective

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." - Eeyore

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

I stand corrected. Yours is a far superior arbitrary system of governance.

See, the way I got it figured, dying is sort'a like the thing that gives your life meaning. You may not want to get there, but, without it, you're just looking at a long, long road to nowhere.

Life isn't about the things you can't have... It is about those blessings you do find along the way.

I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

No humbling of reality to precept.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.