Broad Perspective Quotes

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

Wisdom is not the province of only one party.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess commitment to some special or constricting idea.

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

We are harassing them and will go on harassing them until they are totally exhausted. This is not merely tactics of a definite kind—it is a strategy with a broad perspective, directed at definitive and total victory. The Russian defense always had preparation for the counter-offensive as its aim. The Russian war plan here follows the commandment of Clausewitz.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

I'm not somebody that just has one or two things in life that are laserlike focused.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are.

Just because we have the best hammer, does not mean that every problem is a nail.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.