2,376 Quotes About Perspective

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

Sometimes the clouds in the sky are mistaken. They didn’t come to block the sunlight. They came to embrace it.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES How instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it