Quotes about Perspective
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
— St. Augustine
The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
— Todd Burpo
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
— William Faulkner
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
— William James
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
— William Saroyan
They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
— Robert Frost
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
— Germany Kent