Perspective Quotes

"Understanding means throwing away your knowledge." "We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize." "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it" "A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point" "I've learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures" "We don't come from the same cloth, even if we cut from the same shorts" "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?" "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow" "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "I tried to pay attention but attention paid me" "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun" "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything" "You can't fix a problem using the same kind of thinking that created it" "Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through." "What you aim at determines what you see" "It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order" "By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful."