Quotes About Understanding

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

I have never given up on men easily.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.