2,376 Quotes About Perspective

At dusk the air there is full of small grey bats who feed on the little worms. They eat many, but are suffered to do so and are not killed by the silk-weavers, who indeed account it a deed of very evil omen to kill the grey-winged bats. For if human beings live off the worms, they say, surely small bats have the right to do so.

Sometimes the correct answer is neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’, but ‘a-b’.

How the seen looks depends on how the seer sees.

The tourist takes his culture with him. The traveler leaves his behind.

There is always another way to look at things.

Every breakthrough is born out of a shift in viewpoint that transforms how a set of circumstances is perceived.

Sometimes how high we can go depends on how low we have fallen, for it is in experiencing the depths that we finally become convinced of the heights.

Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.

It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it.