Quotes About Understanding

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.

No man should be angry with what is true.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.