Quotes about Perspective

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to enter the orchard by any gate but our own. To do this is dangerous for the one who enters and also for those who are already there.

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

You are the sum total of all that we have been," said the youngster who looked like my former self. "In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?" I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

Every tragedy is unique, just as every human is unique. When a person loses someone dear to her, who am I to say that my tragedy was greater? I have no right. For that person, her tragedy is the greatest in the world—and she is right in thinking so.