Quotes About Understanding

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

A blind man can see how much I love you

A woman is perturbed by what a man forgets---a man by what a woman remembers.

All men desire by nature to know.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.