Richard Rohr Quotes

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Where you stand depends on where you work.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.