180 quotes found
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
“In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.”
“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”
“We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.”
“Our perspective equals our reality, tweak the perspective and you tweak your reality.”
“I don’t see the me that you see. I wish for just a little bit I could climb into you and then you could climb into me and then we could tell each other what we saw there.”
“We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.”
“One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.”
“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.”
“The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.”
“My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day”
“We’re always looking, but we never really see.”
“while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.”
“We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.”
“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”
“...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”
“If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange”
“Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the ...”
