Quotes About Understanding

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it. This is Cooper.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

The first thing to do about a problem is to recognize it; the second thing is to state it; the third thing is to solve it.

Spears thought he had taught the aliens the meaning of fear./ [The aliens] had merely discovered the virtue of patience.

We touch. For the time in my life, I understand perfection.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

If only faces could talk.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.