Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.