Quotes About Understanding

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!