2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Life is precious regardless of how you choose to think about it.

Why do you reduce art to an autobiography? Once a piece of art is concluded and ejected into the world it changes with every single pair of eyes and becomes an endless object of transformation. The spectator makes it his or her own. Don't decontextualize it and call it truth, call it your perspective.

A sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other.

Not all brilliant people win in life and not all people who won in life are brilliant.

The funny thing is that I never see the world any differently through new glasses. I only ever see things differently when I look in the mirror.

Shadow could not decide whether he was looking at a moon the size of a dollar, a foot above his head, or whether he was looking at a moon the size of the Pacific Ocean, many thousands of miles away. Nor whether there was any difference between the two ideas. Perhaps it was all a matter of the way you looked at it.

But,” began the Zainichi North Korean man, “even if we know all that stuff, isn’t it pointless if the people discriminating against you don’t?” “What matters is that we know,” I said. “Those ignorant haters who discriminate based on nationality and ethnicity are pathetic. We need to educate ourselves and make ourselves stronger and forgive them. Not that I’m anywhere near that yet.

Our agenda is the lens through which we view the world that is in reality a blindfold through which we miss the world.

We are all rational in our own eyes. We are irrational only from the perspective of another person whose concept of rationality is different from ours.