Quotes About Perspective

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: 'Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist." The Universe replied: "That's fine." Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Every man is an artist.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.