Quotes About Perspective

You can't please everybody, man.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.