Quotes About Perspective

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Don't believe everything you think.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Those who hate rain hate life.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

The days are long, but the years are short.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.