Quotes about Perspective
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
— GK Chesterton
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
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