Undistorted Quotes

#1. When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Milton H. Erickson

#2. We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. There must be darkness to see the stars.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Theodor Adorno

#5. Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

Philippe Halsman

#6. The damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear - the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.

David Ignatius

#8. I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.

Dana Spiotta

#9. The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished, undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with - as far as possible.
Like a silver moon in a calm, still pond.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#11. You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .

Anthony De Mello

#12. Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

Justus Von Liebig

#13. You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Kenneth Rexroth

#14. Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life's sanctity, is a "civil war" waged by humanity against itself.

Daisaku Ikeda

#15. When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

Elizabeth George