Quotes about Perspective

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

It was the theory of the week. For about a year.

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

Bright people often have a good load to carry. But boredom is seldom a part of it. It's all right. I'm always pleased to see just that small bit deeper. You deny our brotherhood. Insisting as you do in your sly way that our genealogies and our socioeconomic standings have set us apart at birth in a manner not to be contravened. But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

There's a lot of things look better at a distance