Quotes About Understanding

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

A man has to know his limitations.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

When you know who I am. Let me be your man.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .