Quotes About Understanding

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.