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Perspective Quotes by Neil Postman
- Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
- The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired…
- The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
- The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind…
More Perspective Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take… — Jeff Bridges
- People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact,… — David Brinkley
- Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He is so big. We can never kill… — Russell Johnston
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius