Quotes About Perspective

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.