Quotes about Perspective
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson