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Quotes About Understanding

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
~ Paul Eldridge
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
Glamour is when a man knows a woman is a woman.
~ Gina Lollobrigida
A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God
~ Paul Washer
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
~ Manly Hall
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~ Jacques Maritain
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
~ Helen Rowland
The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
~ George Washington
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
~ David Hume
All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
~ Khalil Gibran
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
~ Martin Heidegger
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
~ Monica Bellucci
I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Let a man overcome anger by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
~ Thomas Merton
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
~ Gabriel Marcel
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
~ Jose Rizal
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
~ Confucius
Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
~ Chester A. Arthur
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
~ Jack London
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
~ Zhuangzi