Quotes About Understanding

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

We rarely find any persons of good sense except those who agree with us.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

The head is always the bubble of the heart.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

When did he start to stroke and compassionate?

Ils ont treize noms pour nommer le palmier, et le palmier n'est pas nommé.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned