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Quotes About Understanding

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.
~ Brenda Jackson
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
~ Brennan Manning
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
~ C. S. Lewis
I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
~ Carrie Fisher
I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.
~ Cassandra Clare
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
~ Roland Joffe
A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.
~ Sam Smith
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
~ Samael Aun Weor
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
~ Seneca the Younger
Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.
~ Shaunti Feldhahn
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
~ Sophocles
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
~ Thomas Hobbes
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
~ Thomas Kyd
Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.
~ Vernon Cooper
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
~ Victor Hugo
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
~ Vince McMahon
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
~ Washington Irving
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
~ Weston La Barre
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
~ William Blake
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
~ William Faulkner
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
~ William Faulkner