Quotes About Understanding

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.