Quotes About Perspective

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

?Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

Knowing isn't always believing.

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.