Perspective Limitation Quotes

It's hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth