Quotes About Perspective

Looking back is easy for a while and then looking back gets murky.

The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of "simpler times.

For you, that tree is dead.

The philosopher king said, "Everything stinks sometimes. Some of it can't be explained.

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We really are like fish discussing how to get more in touch with the sea.

Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore.

The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.

Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.

We are clever; you are cunning. We support freedom fighters; you support terrorists. We set up holding centers; you set up concentration camps. We strategically withdraw; you retreat. We are religious; you are fanatic. We are determined; you are pig-headed. There are literally thousands of words that fall into good-when-I-do-it-bad-when-you-do doublets. Most people are not skilled in detecting doublespeak. Dirty

Pride, ideology, or belief restrains many people from viewing Homo Sapiens as just another primate species, one among many.

We should accept the likelihood that male violence and male dominance over women have long been a part of our history. But with an evolutionary perspective we can firmly reject the pessimists who say it has to stay that way. Male demonism is not inevitable.

I learned that I could draw the boundaries of my physical self inward, collapse the space I occupied and become a mote, a speck, an indifferent atom in its own peculiar orbit.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Additionally, if Trump's statement that there were fine people on both sides was referring to the two violent sides of the conflict, then saying that Nazis were fine people would also be saying that Antifa were fine people; no one can seriously maintain that Trump considers Antifa to be fine people.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Happiness is no laughing matter.

History is the enemy of memory.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it