Quotes About Understanding

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.

Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?