Quotes About Understanding

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.