Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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