Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I am best viewed from a distance.

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.

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

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

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.