Quotes about Perspective

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

It made her feel sorry for her husband: she was discovering how vulnerable to flattery a conceited old man could be.

One is never too old to get younger.