Quotes About Understanding

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Love's all in all to women.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.