Quotes About Understanding

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

A mon sens, dans ma façon de « voir », de « comprendre », l'image, la vision que propose ma photo, ne veut surtout rien « garder », seulement proposer un sentiment de découverte, d'approfondissement soudain, de perception de ce que j'appelle ouverture, de clarté qu'on pourrait dire intuitive.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

Old women can see through walls.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?

I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion.

Quién no escribe para gustar a las mujeres?

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Common sense is the best sense I know of

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.