Quotes About Comprehension

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

What men have seen they know. . . .

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.