2,376 Quotes About Perspective

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good. Two dollars a gallon to go ten miles is too much, but five to the parking valet to go ten feet is okay.

From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.