2,376 Quotes About Perspective

I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life.

They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the major players in Philadelphia, we need to abandon our hindsight omniscience and capture their mentality as they negotiated the unknown.

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

You'd expect academics, people who are by training comfortable with complexity, to be the most resistant to the idea that we're shaped by any single factor. In fact, they are often the worst offenders. Immersed in their own research, shaped by their own work, many logically see everything else as a natural extension of it.

Working is prayer for the likes of us,” his master often said. “It’s the way we commune with God.”“Then how does He respond to us?” Jahan had once asked, way back when he was younger.“By giving us more work, of course.