Quotes About Perspective

I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

If no meant no then every man would die a virgin.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.