Quotes about Perspective

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.