Quotes About Comprehension

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Now I understand," said the last man.