Quotes About Understanding

A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.