Quotes About Understanding

I pity his ignorance and despise him.

She knows wot's wot, she does.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Depth answers only to depth .

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too

Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.

and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

He never thought that she saw in him what no one else could see. He never thought that in the whole world there were no other eyes that looked upon him with the same light and strength as hers.

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.

If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!