Quotes About Understanding

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.