Quotes About Understanding

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Few men can afford to be angry.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.