Quotes about Perspective

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side the richer which sees it.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

We get only transient and partial glimpses of the beauty of the world. Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colors of the rainbow in colorless ice. From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown!

With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.

Not all books are as dull as their readers.