Quotes About Understanding

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.