Quotes About Understanding

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Be kind to an old man.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.