Quotes About Understanding

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

You know men. We have delicate egos.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.