Quotes About Understanding

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

I would never disrespect a man's way of life, especially if they're happy.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?