Quotes About Perspective

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Each man believes only his experience.

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.