Quotes About Perspective

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.