Quotes About Understanding

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

Even bad men love their mommas.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.