John Tukey Quotes

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

Perspectives change.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Certain things give you another perspective in life.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may come across and actually touch people's conscience or minds in a way that could change, at least if not things, change points of view.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.