Quotes about Perspective
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
— Livy
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
— Marquis de Sade
If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.
— Martin Luther
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
— William Faulkner
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
— Alice Walker
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
— CS Lewis
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
— John Piper
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.
— John Updike
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
— Dolly Parton
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
— Oswald Chambers