Quotes About Understanding

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.