Quotes About Understanding

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

No man knows my history.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.