Quotes about Perspective

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending Presbyterians in Ghana than Scotland, and while Western pastors beg to fill seats, some African pastors are asking people only to attend every second or third week to give room for others in packed churches.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.