Quotes about Perspective

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Life is a mystery to be experienced, not solved.

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

This illustrates the principle that vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

Knowledge is power," Francis Bacon said in a peculiarly prophetic moment. He was right; "modern" scientific knowledge has demonstrated its power for three centuries. With postmodernism, however, the situation is reversed. There is no purely objective knowledge, no truth of correspondence. Instead there are only stories, stories that, when they are believed, give the storyteller power over others.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

The further away you are from something, the fuzzier it becomes.