Quotes about Perspective
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.
— Joseph Wirthlin
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
— Ayn Rand
Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
— Oscar Wilde
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
— Virginia Woolf
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
— Bill Bailey
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
— Mark Twain
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
— Paul Ricoeur
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
— Charles Kettering