Quotes About Perspective

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000)

Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.