Quotes about Perspective
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
— CS Lewis
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
— Elie Wiesel
When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.
— George Bernard Shaw
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
— GK Chesterton
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
— Herman Melville
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
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