Quotes About Perspective

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.

Not all people are affected the same way by the same events. We are each our own fingerprints and the sum of our own life's experiences.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing is a simple way.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.

Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.