Quotes About Perspective

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey...

It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.

Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible.

I pity the poverty of your wealth.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, 'I don't know', then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

Is this Paradise?' 'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality. ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein

Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ... and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . .

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Everybody is equal. Everybody! That's the law. They are? Only from on top.

Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective . . . and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.