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Quotes About Understanding

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
~ Thomas Campion
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
~ Tony Evans
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
~ Tryon Edwards
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
~ Victor Hugo
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
~ Aeschylus
All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
~ Albert Einstein
One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.
~ Alexander Herzen
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
~ Alexander Pope
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
~ Andre Maurois
At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
~ Andrew W.K.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
~ Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits
~ Aristotle
Now I understand," said the last man.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.
~ Bob Marley
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
~ Boethius
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
~ Booker T. Washington
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
~ C. S. Lewis
An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
~ C. S. Lewis
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
~ Carl Jung
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
~ Robin Hobb