2,376 Quotes About Perspective

All strife passes in time.

The American people should not have their time wasted and should not be misinformed by the press. If they want to lie to us they should go into politics like everyone else does.

Think a little differently from the herd and see things they can’t or won’t.

On the journey to the airport she could literally feel the wheels turning in her head and her perception of the situation flipping around. She wasn’t driving away from her home—she was driving towards it.

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we know little peace of mind. There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

For some kids, the classroom setting is the place where their genius is hardest to see and their challenges are easiest to see. And since they spend so much time in the classroom, that’s a tough break for these little guys. But if we are patient and calm and we wear our perspectacles and we keep believing, we will eventually see the specific magic of each child.

If you cannot appreciate weird subjects you should learn to, the world is very boring without them.

Humans can be just like particles, and in comparison to the endless Universe in size and individual importance, that is exactly what they are.

If the gods saw people’s souls but not their bodies, in mirror to the way people saw bodies but not souls, it might explain why the gods were so careless of such things as appearance, or other bodily functions. Such as pain? Was pain an illusion, from the gods’ point of view? Perhaps heaven was not a place, but merely an angle of view, a vantage, a perspective.