Quotes About Perspective

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Man is but the place where I stand.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.