Quotes About Comprehension

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

Man's best candle is his understanding.

If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.