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Quotes About Understanding

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
~ Gerald Kersh
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around
~ Gregory David Roberts
What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.
~ Liv Ullmann
To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
~ Louis L'Amour
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
~ Marcus Aurelius
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
~ Margaret Deland
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
~ Michael Gurian
The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you.
~ Mildred Newman
It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.
~ Minna Antrim
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
~ Morris Chestnut
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
~ Pasquier Quesnel
The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
~ Phyllis McGinley
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
~ Plato
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
~ Orson Scott Card
I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.
~ Rae Earl
Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.
~ Robert Benchley
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
~ Robert Henri
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine