Quotes About Understanding

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

We understand nature by resisting it.

If a thing goes without saying -- let it.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.