Quotes About Understanding

Communication is the most important single activity of man.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

The healthy man does not torture others.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.