Quotes About Understanding

lei, che Ross conosceva tanto bene, che non aveva niente di particolare, nessun vestito carino, né cipria né trucchi, che non aveva alcun segreto per lui. [...].

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.

All my own life, I ain't understood shit about what was goin on. A thing jus happen, then somethin else happen, then somethin else, an so on, an haf the time nothin makin any sense.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

In war and policy one should always try to put oneself in the position of what Bismarck called "the Other Man". The more fully and sympathetically a Minister can do this the better are his chances of being right. The more knowledge he possesses of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. But imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

A wit wrote ten years ago: "The leaders of thought have reached the horizons of human reason, but all the wires are down, and they can only communicate with us by unintelligible signals.

imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

the sharpest political differences are sometimes found not incompatible with personal friendship.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and he is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.

I must thank the Hon. Gentleman for making me acquainted with the word "outwith," with which I had not previously had the pleasure of making acquaintance. For the benefit of English Members I may say that it is translated "outside the scope of." I thought it was a misprint at first.

The plain people were busy getting their daily bread. They had no time to listen to all the frantic pleadings and protests which arose. One tale was good until another was told, and probably both were untrue and certainly very difficult to understand.

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait pas.' It

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss.

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.

I think it is desirable that persons concerned with the administration of justice should carefully acquaint themselves with the nature and character of any punishments which they may be authorised to order.