Quotes About Understanding

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

Study men, not historians.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Animals make us Human.

The world needs all types of minds.