Quotes About Perspective

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?