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Quotes About Understanding

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.
~ Charlie Munger
We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
~ Emily Dickinson
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
~ Forest Whitaker
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
~ George Michael
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~ Havelock Ellis
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.
~ Ayn Rand
The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.
~ Bill Maher
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
~ Boris Vian
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
~ C. S. Lewis
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
~ Coco Chanel
A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
~ Confucius
A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man lives in a world of meaning.
~ George H. Mead
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
~ Irving Kristol
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
~ Jacques Maritain
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
~ John Henry Newman
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.
~ John Wesley