Quotes About Understanding

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Almost all people descend to meet.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

No, the wise man is he who by that wonderful alchemy of love transmutes the enemy into the friend,—transmutes the bitterest enemy into the warmest...(friend?). —What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

Execution requires a comprehensive understanding of a business, its people, and its environment.