Quotes About Perspective

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

Some might say they don't believe in heaven Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.