Quotes about Perspective

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.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

He who complains, sins.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.