Quotes About Perspective

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Men see what they expect to see.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.