Quotes About Understanding

There is no perfect man! I think I'm meant to have many soulmates.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

I need my man to be my homie.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.