Quotes About Perspective

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.