Quotes About Understanding

Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

Let's not bring flame where light is enough.

In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.

So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law to machinations! Appalling!

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God. But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions.

I understand only love and liberty.

Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile.

Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

When I speak to you about myself, I'm speaking to you about yourself. How is it that you don't see that?

It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

Svarbiausia, neišsigimk ? žmog?.

Misfortunes shared creates happiness.

The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves

Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.

Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.

He understood how to say the grandest things in the most vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

Blind is he who will not see!

Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.

On ne se connaît pas tant qu'on n'a pas bu ensemble.

Aures habet, et non audiet.