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Quotes About Perspective

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
~ Aldous Huxley
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
~ Aleksandr Kuprin
The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
~ Alex Colville
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
~ Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.
~ Alicia Machado
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
~ Ambrose Bierce
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
~ Andre Malraux
If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.
~ Angus T. Jones
One man's faith is another man's delusion
~ Anthony Storr
It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.
~ Arthur Jafa
If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.
~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
~ August Strindberg
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
~ Augustus William Hare
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
~ Austin O'Malley
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
~ Blaise Pascal
There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.
~ Brian Herbert
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
~ C. S. Lewis
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!
~ Cab Calloway