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Quotes about Perspective

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.
— Will Rogers
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.
— Will Rogers
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
— William Faulkner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
— William Golding
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
— William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
— William Hazlitt
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
— William Hazlitt
ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
— William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
— William James
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
— William James
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
— William James