Quotes about Perspective
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
— Mark Twain
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
— Mark Twain
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant
— Mark Twain
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
— Phillips Brooks
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
— Herman Melville
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
— Jacques Maritain
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
— John Donne
In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
— John Lennon
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike