Quotes About Perspective

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

brief encounter with having less, to honor the people losing more.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral." —Frank Lloyd Wright

She remembered the day that she first realized she would never be able to read every book in the world," said John Clement. "She cried for days.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.

I have never seen to my knowledge a man, woman, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men.

Whether the owners of this species of property [slavery] do really see it as it is, it is not for me to say, but if they do, they see it as it is through 2,000,000,000 of dollars, and that is a pretty thick coating.

[I feel] somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.