Perspective Quotes
Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
- George Santayana
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
- Honore De Balzac
Whatever begins, also ends.
- Seneca
Normal is in the eyes of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
You are all you will ever have for certain.
- June Havoc
O what a lovely thing this perspective is!
- Paolo Uccello
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
- Confucius
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.
- Leonardo Vinci
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
- Mark Twain
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
- Tom Robbins
I have not failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Thomas Edison
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
- Denis Waitley
From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.
- Napoleon
I always try to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble.
- Rudyard Kipling
I’m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
- Dave Edison
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
- Henry Ward
… without darkness Nothing comes to birth, As without light Nothing flowers.
- May Sarton
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher.
- Jonathan Kozol
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
- Robert Redford
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
- Buddha
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
- Blaise Pascal
The unfit die the fit both live and thrive.” Alas, who says so? They who do survive.
- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
- John Ruskin
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
- Matthew Henry
Every positive value has its price in negative terms…The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
- Pablo Picasso
Our children go to school to learn to commnicate, and all the teachers do is tell them is shut up.
- Galleger
One never can tell from the sidewalk just what the view is to some one on the inside, looking out.
- George Ade
Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- George C. Lichtenberg
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
- Dr. Seuss
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it’s called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it’s called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
God is on everyone’s side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
- Jean Anouilh


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