Quotes About Understanding

Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.