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Perspective13 quotes
Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelvemonth hence. — Samuel Johnson · 1763Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. — Daniel Kahneman · 2011As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence. — Charles Dickens · 1838The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667You 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. — Harper Lee · 1960When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome · 395All 13 quotes →Beauty1 quote
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. — John ConstableCognitive biases1 quote
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Empathy1 quote
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. — Harper Lee · 1960Human nature1 quote
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. — Edmund Burke · 1770Hunger1 quote
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome · 395Mistakes1 quote
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence. — Charles Dickens · 1838Moving forward1 quote
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. — Helen Keller · 1929Myopia1 quote
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Old age1 quote
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch · 1955Opportunities1 quote
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. — Helen Keller · 1929Original sin1 quote
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. — Edmund Burke · 1770Parochialism1 quote
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Perception1 quote
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851Power of thought1 quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667Relativism1 quote
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch · 1955The mind1 quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton · 1667Ugliness1 quote
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. — John ConstableVirtue1 quote
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. — Edmund Burke · 1770