Quotes About Perspective

We become prisoners of our own beliefs, with no one free to escape such a fate, and this, my dearest friend, is the only democracy offered by the world.

There was the advantage in believing I was old already because it released me from having to be young. There was the possibility of death, which allowed one to bypass digressions into a life that had to be lived in detail. Pritchett called Turgenev's pessimism absolute. The absoluteness -- whether it is pessimism or optimism or fatalism -- is the most effective defense against what haunts one.

A noun is a self-defeating wall, an adjective is a tenacious window.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

The future ain't what it used to be.

A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore!

All happiness is in the mind.

If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

Each planet has its own orbit agenda. Think of people close to you as planets. Sometimes it's nice to just watch them orbit and shine.

Think that snow is falling Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on that person Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow

It's a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

it's said that the ground directly beneath the lantern is always the darkest.

Microeconomists are wrong about specific things and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general!

The truth is an accepted lie.

To those who insist that nothing is equivalent to personal experience, We shall renew our argument, begging them to meditate on the preceding lines, drawing their attention to the fact that a just opinion can only be formed when personal sentiment is excluded from the discussion.

M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past continue to multiply. ... So that those who need can find that this person did live, those events really took place, this interpretation is not the only one.

You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.