2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

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

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.