Quotes About Understanding

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.