Quotes About Perspective

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.