Quotes about Perspective
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
— LM Montgomery
But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.
— LM Montgomery
We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.
— Lauraine Snelling
I am pursuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
— Laurence Sterne
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
— Lily Tomlin
Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
— Henry David Thoreau
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
— Abraham Lincoln
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
— John Polkinghorne
The universe is wider than our views of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.
— CS Lewis
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
— Carl Sagan
Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
— Aldous Huxley