Quotes about Perspective
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
— Winston Churchill
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
— George Clooney
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
— George Washington
Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.
— Greg Koukl
There's only one story, the story of your life.
— Helen Keller