Quotes about Perspective

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

Think of it this way: no scientist has ever seen an electron, but all scientists agree that electrons exist. No physicist has ever seen a quark, but all physicists believe that quarks are real. Why? Because when they look into their microscopes, they see things happening that could only happen if quarks and electrons existed. I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.