Quotes About Understanding

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

We cannot learn men from books.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.