Quotes About Understanding

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

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.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it itz broken.

Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.

We are beginning to see that religion is not a spontaneous, self-protecting plant; that faith is not safely and wisely left to its own growth.

When we understand the source of evils, and are alive to their existence, they are already half conquered.

Truth is none the less true because it is undiscovered.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Now, suppose you tell me exactly what is going on," Papa Pete began. "I don't know where to start," I said. "Try the beginning," said Papa Pete.

Do you know that one out of every five kids has learning challenges? I'm sure I had them, too, but when I was growing up, no one even knew there was such a thing.

I will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those, from whom I have gathered my knowledge; For I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe, at my best value.

that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people;

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.