Quotes about Perspective

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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.