Quotes About Understanding

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

God knows better than we do what we need.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word 'she.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes

Love is a fault; so be it.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke. Les Miserables

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

On ne lit pas impunément des niaiseries

Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose que deja ton coeur avait repondu.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.