Perspective Quotes

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
- Italian Proverb

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
- Harvey Mindess

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
- Haneef Fatmi

Lessing A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
- Gotthold Ephraim

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
- Henry Bolingbroke

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
- George Duhamel

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
- Ilya G Ehrenburg

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
- Hume

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann