Quotes · Skopia

13 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Perspective✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

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.

★ 1.8

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Newsweek · 1955

★ 1.9

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

1929

★ 1.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 2.1

Pamphlet · Political literature

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

1770

★ 3.5

You cannot see the wood for trees.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Studies in Pessimism · 1851

★ 3.7

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

395

★ 3.8

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838

★ 3.9

Psychological literature

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow · 2011

★ 4.5

Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence.

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1763

★ 4.6