Quotes About Understanding

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.