Quotes about Perspective
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
— Ricky Gervais
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
— Virginia Woolf
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
— Bill Bailey
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
— Mark Twain
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
— Paul Ricoeur
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
— Charles Kettering
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
— Wayne Dyer
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
— WP Kinsella