Quotes Tagged With :shortsighted

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t....

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy....

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty....

If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next....

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement....

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise....

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our....

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.