Quotes About Understanding

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.

Every man has got to know his limitations.

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.