Quotes About Perspective

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Little things are great to little men.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Men tend to be selfish.

A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.