Quotes About Understanding

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.