Tony Hillerman Quotes

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

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

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.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

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

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

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

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

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

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

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

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

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.

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.

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