Quotes About Understanding

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to each other. Perhaps, dare I even say it, in the same zip code.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.