Perspective Quotes

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actu...

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Bra...

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but thes...

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yo...

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have chan...

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladd...

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

The best things in life aren't things.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forc...

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism...

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned ...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly im...

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen...

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't...

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.Without a moment’s h...

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really ...

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean ...

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equa...

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those th...

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than m...

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sor...

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book....

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by th...

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no tu...

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life sh...

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothin...

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance o...

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely e...

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of ...

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars ...

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain w...

...it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of ...

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first...

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers...

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just...

I noticed that he was an Irish setter, rust-colored. He noticed that I was a Welsh sculptor, buff-co...

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name...

As small as a world as large as alone.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

No two persons ever read the same book.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all ...

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspe...

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and t...

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow ...

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As o...

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly...

Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his co...

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if...

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic tra...

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test ...

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my fr...