2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Like every generation that has ever trod the sod, we are arrogant enough to believe we are always the culmination of history, rather than just one more stretch of a road that goes on forever.

Your mind constantly seeks proof that will confirm your beliefs. If you have negative beliefs, your mind will seek to prove those negative thoughts. If you have positive beliefs, your minds will seek to prove those positive thoughts. Therefore, it is important to be mindful of our beliefs.

You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.

Blindness is far more a state of mind than it is a condition of the eyes.

Encouragers turn mountains into molehills. Discouragers turn molehills into mountains.

People don't know that they don't know. Remember that before you hold it against them.

I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house.‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, I say, but it doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.I wait for him to make eye contact, which he does.‘You have a point, Junior,’ he says.’ You’re right.

The thing about a mirror is this: the one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.