Freya Stark Quotes

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

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.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.