Quotes about Perspective

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.