Quotes About Perspective

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.