Quotes About Understanding

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Only the shallow know themselves

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.