Quotes About Understanding

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

La vie à deux consiste presque essentiellement à attendre l'autre.

Je comprends ce que j'aime, et ne comprends pas ce que je n'aime pas. Et, comme j'aime peu, au bout du compte je ne comprends pas grand'chose.

Love, understood by all, will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Without scientific study, an employer does not know why he is paying a wage and the employee does not know why he is getting it.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.