Quotes About Understanding

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

all men are the same age.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Conquer the angry man by love.

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.