Quotes About Understanding

I have known some wonderful men.

I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.