Quotes about Perspective

A dark world only makes the brighter moments shine that much more.

For parents, the days are long but the years are short.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?

Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.

We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes. But when we do, the shock is violent, and we are compelled to choose sides, for or against... Death belongs to God alone.

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.