2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.