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Quotes About Understanding

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
~ John Berger
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
~ John Henry Newman
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
~ John Locke
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
~ Josh Billings
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
~ Karl Popper
I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.
~ Lil' Kim
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
~ Marcus Aurelius
The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.
~ Meryl Streep
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
~ Michael Lewis
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
~ Miles Teller
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
~ Natasha Trethewey
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
~ Norbert Wiener
Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
~ Plutarch
The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.
~ Pope John Paul II
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
~ Oscar Wilde
Age doesn't make a man.
~ Roger Miller
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
~ Solomon
Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one
~ Swami Vivekananda