Perspective Quotes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. (Marcus Aurelius)
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. View quote
John Constable
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. View quote
Christopher Morley
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. View quote
Alan Perlis
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. View quote
Michael Keaton
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. View quote
Gregory Peck
Gary Ross is amazing. He's just-he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing. View quote
Liam Hemsworth
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. View quote
Carl Sagan
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. (Vanna Bonta)
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius. View quote
Salvador Dalí
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. View quote
Alan Kay
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. View quote
Martha Beck
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective. View quote
David Perlmutter
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it. View quote
Chris Pine
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. (Allen Klein)
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. View quote
Marguerite Moreau
A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well. View quote
Morris Chestnut
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. View quote
Paul Cellucci