Perspective

(163 votes)   It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(137 votes)   I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(99 votes)   Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(97 votes)   Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(94 votes)   A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

Thomas Traherne
1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic

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(84 votes)   Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Lord Barnett

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(75 votes)   The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

R. L. Gregory

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