Quotes About Understanding

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.