Quotes about Perspective
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
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
— Helen Keller
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
— Henry David Thoreau