Quotes About Perspective

Ik kan natuurlijk wel zeggen dat je niet altijd boos op me kunt blijven, maar jou kennende zou je dat als een uitdaging zien. - Ivy

I was done knowing better , when I didn't really know anything at all.

Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.

If yes is no and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have? - Jameson Hawthorne

Funny thing about dying," Bales said, his voice contemplative. "You don't have much to lose.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you." ? The Inheritance Games

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

it took me years to realize that every piece of treasure he ever gave me was trash.

Some puzzles make more sense at two hundred miles an hour.

Nothing has to matter," Grayson replied tightly, "unless you let it.

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

Would you have hated me until you loved me?

telling the story so no one else tells it for you.

Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.

I guess you never know what other people are thinking, do you?

No one sees the world like you do, Emma. Creating art is about sharing your own personal vision with the world. Taking something no one else can see and bringing it to life.

Like all stories, it has pieces which are true, and pieces which are fiction. Nothing is ever really what it seems. Remember

But Tess always wondered—maybe people were better off with the watered-down version of life, life with blinders, filters, cars that ran and buildings that went up on time, simple, stupid, mindless jobs. Maybe they were happy.

Shape your reality. Make it true because you say it is.

There's nothing in that water except what we bring in with us.

But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.

Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture's basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains' basic formation.

Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don't know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you've got nothing to worry about.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution