Quotes About Understanding

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

A man's got to know his limitations.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.