Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.
If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass.
From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, uncha...
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from...
California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to...
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.
Last night Vicky was talking about the ineffability of inner experience. She told you to imagine what it was like to be a bat. Even if you knew what sonar was and how it worked, you could never know w...
And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way, Leibniz said. Each painter can view the city from only one standpoint at a time, so he will move about the place...
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ev...
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.
If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough.
It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.
Personally I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of 'women and science' is entirely irrelevant. Either a woman is a good scientist, or she is not; in any case she should...
Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.
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