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Quotes About Perspective

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.
~ Danielle Steel
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
~ E. B. White
No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
~ E. W. Howe
If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.
~ Edwin M. Stanton
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
~ Epictetus
No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.
~ Frances Harper
If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.
~ Frank Lampard
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
~ Fred Allen
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
~ Gautama Buddha
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
~ George Eliot
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
~ Thomas Hardy
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
~ George William Norris
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
~ Albert Camus
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
~ Amy Clampitt
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
~ Barry Hannah
It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.
~ Bette Midler
Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
~ Blaise Pascal
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
~ Blaise Pascal
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~ Blaise Pascal
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
~ Carolyn Wells
There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."
~ Charlie Munger
I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."
~ Christian Hosoi
I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.
~ Derek Landy