Quotes About Understanding

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.