Quotes About Perspective

ethnocentrism—the tendency to evaluate the customs of other groups according to one's own cultural standards.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The final word belongs to one of Truman's aides, George Elsey. "It's all well and good to come along later and say the bomb was a horrible thing," he commented subsequently. "The whole goddamn war was a horrible thing.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

About women? When I say soldiers I don't mean me. I wasn't no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don't mean you.

liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.