Quotes About Understanding

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.