Wider Perspective Quotes

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

… the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

If you obsess about one thing, you're just going to miss the broader picture.

If we broaden our gaze, it will be more interesting, more beautiful.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.