Quotes About Understanding

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Man by Nature desires to know.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.