Quotes About Understanding

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

Never see the face of man till you have seen his face who is our life, our all.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.